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An error bound concerning Howard's Value Determination Equation

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For a discrete Markovian Decision Process with finite state space an error bound is given for an arbitrary approximate solutionv′ of the Value Determination Equation.

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  • Howard, R.A.: Dynamic Programming and Markov Processes. New York-London 1960.

  • Odoni, A.R.: On finding the maximal gain for Markov Decision Processes. Opns. Res.17, 1969, 857–860.

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    W. Steinbuβ

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Steinbuβ, W. An error bound concerning Howard's Value Determination Equation. Zeitschrift für Operations Research 26, 185–188 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01917110

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