Описание: The Wiley--Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "This text is unique in bringing together so many results hitherto found only in part in other texts and papers...The text is fairly self--contained, inclusive of some basic mathematical results needed, and provides a rich diet of examples, applications, and exercises. The bibliographical material at the end of each chapter is excellent, not only from a historical perspective, but because it is valuable for researchers in acquiring a good perspective of the MDP research potential." - Zentralblatt fur Mathematik "...it is of great value to advanced--level students, researchers, and professional practitioners of this field to have now a complete volume (with more than 600 pages) devoted to this topic...Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming represents an up--to--date, unified, and rigorous tre " - Journal of the American Statistical Association
Описание: The purpose of this book is to provide a careful and accessible account along modern lines of the subject which the title deals, as well as to discuss problems of current interest in the field. More precisely this book is devoted to the functional-analytic approach to a class of degenerate boundary value problems for second-order elliptic integro-differential operators which includes as particular cases the Dirichlet and Robin problems. This class of boundary value problems provides a new example of analytic semigroups. As an application, we construct a strong Markov process corresponding to such a diffusion phenomenon that a Markovian particle moves both by jumps and continuously in the state space until it dies at the time when it reaches the set where the particle is definitely absorbed.
Автор: Feinberg Eugene A., Shwartz Adam Название: Handbook of Markov Decision Processes / Methods and Applications ISBN: 0792374592 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792374596 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 31246 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The theory of Markov Decision Processes - also known under several other names including sequential stochastic optimization, discrete-time stochastic control, and stochastic dynamic programming - studies sequential optimization of discrete time stochastic systems. Fundamentally, this is a methodology that examines and analyzes a discrete-time stochastic system whose transition mechanism can be controlled over time. Each control policy defines the stochastic process and values of objective functions associated with this process. Its objective is to select a "good" control policy. In real life, decisions that humans and computers make on all levels usually have two types of impacts: (i) they cost or save time, money, or other resources, or they bring revenues, as well as (ii) they have an impact on the future, by influencing the dynamics. In many situations, decisions with the largest immediate profit may not be good in view of future events. Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) model this paradigm and provide results on the structure and existence of good policies and on methods for their calculations. MDPs are attractive to many researchers because they are important both from the practical and the intellectual points of view. MDPs provide tools for the solution of important real-life problems. In particular, many business and engineering applications use MDP models. Analysis of various problems arising in MDPs leads to a large variety of interesting mathematical and computational problems. Accordingly, the Handbook of Markov Decision Processes is split into three parts: Part I deals with models with finite state and action spaces and Part II deals with infinite state problems, and Part III examines specific applications. Individual chapters are written by leading experts on the subject.
Автор: Breuer L. Название: From Markov Jump Processes to Spatial Queues ISBN: 1402011040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781402011047 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10971 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From Markov Jump Processes to Spatial Queues aims to develop a unified theory of spatial queues that yields concrete results for the performance analysis of mobile communication networks. A particular objective is to develop the most natural generalization of existing concepts (e.g. the BMAP) toward the needs of mobile communication networks. To these belong the spatial distribution of batch arrivals and users in the system as well as time-inhomogeneous (e.g. periodic) arrival intensities and user movements. One of the major recent challenges for the stochastic modelling of communication systems is the emergence of wireless networks, which are used by more and more subscribers today. The main new feature of those, which is not covered by classical queuing theory, clearly is the importance of the user location within the area that is served by the base stations of the network. In the framework of queuing theory, this opens up the natural extension of classical queuing models towards queues with a structured space in which users are served. The present book is intended to introduce this extension under the name of spatial queues. The main point of view and the general approach will be that of Markov jump processes. We start with a closer look into the theory. Then we present new results for the theory of stochastic processes as well as for classical queuing theory. Finally we introduce the new concepts of spatial Markovian arrival processes and spatial queues. The main text is divided into three parts. The first part provides a new presentation of the theory of Markov jump processes. We derive a number of new results, especially for time-inhomogeneous processes, which have been neglected too much in the current textbooks on stochastic processes. For the first time, the class of Markov-additive jump processes is analysed in detail. This extends and unifies all Markovian arrival processes that have been proposed up to now (including arrivals for fluid queues) and provides a foundation for the subsequent introduction of spatial Markovian arrival processes.The second part contains new results for classical queues with BMAP input. These include the first explicit formulae for the distribution of periodic queues. The class of fluid Markovian arrival processes is introduced, and we give statistical estimates for the parameters of a BMAP. In the third part, the concepts of spatial Markovian arrival processes (abbreviated: SMAPs) and spatial queues are introduced. After that, periodic spatial Markovian queues are analysed as a model for the cells of a wireless communication network. From Markov Jump Processes to Spatial Queues is intended to reach queuing theorists, researchers in the field of communication systems, as well as engineers with some background in probability theory. Furthermore, it is suitable as a textbook for advanced queuing theory on the graduate or post-graduate level.
Автор: Janssen Jacques, Manca Raimondo Название: Applied Semi-Markov Processes ISBN: 038729547X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387295473 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11494 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Aims to give to the reader the tools necessary to apply semi-Markov processes in real-life problems.The book is self-contained and, starting from a low level of probability concepts, gradually brings the reader to a deep knowledge of semi-Markov processes.Presents homogeneous and non-homogeneous semi-Markov processes, as well as Markov and semi-Markov rewards processes.The concepts are fundamental for many applications, but they are not as thoroughly presented in other books on the subject as they are here.
Автор: Kalpazidou Sophia L. Название: Cycle Representations of Markov Processes ISBN: 0387291660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387291666 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 17241 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is a prototype providing new insight into Markovian dependence via the cycle decompositions. It presents a systematic account of a class of stochastic processes known as cycle (or circuit) processes - so-called because they may be defined by directed cycles. These processes have special and important properties through the interaction between the geometric properties of the trajectories and the algebraic characterization of the Markov process. An important application of this approach is the insight it provides to electrical networks and the duality principle of networks. In particular, it provides an entirely new approach to infinite electrical networks and their applications in topics as diverse as random walks, the classification of Riemann surfaces, and to operator theory.The second edition of this book adds new advances to many directions, which reveal wide-ranging interpretations of the cycle representations like homologic decompositions, orthogonality equations, Fourier series, semigroup equations, and disintegration of measures. The versatility of these interpretations is consequently motivated by the existence of algebraic-topological principles in the fundamentals of the cycle representations. This book contains chapter summaries as well as a number of detailed illustrations.Review of the earlier edition:"This is a very useful monograph which avoids ready ways and opens new research perspectives. It will certainly stimulate further work, especially on the interplay of algebraic and geometrical aspects of Markovian dependence and its generalizations."Math Reviews.
Автор: Hernandez-Lerma Название: Discrete-Time Markov Control Processes ISBN: 0387945792 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387945798 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13584 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text provides a unified treatment of some recent theoretical developments on Markov control processes. Interest is mainly confined to MCPs with Borel state and control spaces, and possibly unbound costs and non-compact control constraint sets.
Автор: Hernandez-Lerma Название: Further Topics on Discrete-Time Markov Control Processes ISBN: 0387986944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387986944 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14629 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Devotes to a systematic exposition of some developments in the theory of discrete-time Markov control processes.
Описание: Probability and Statistics are as much about intuition and problem solving as they are about theorem proving. Because of this, students can find it very difficult to make a successful transition from lectures to examinations to practice, since the problems involved can vary so much in nature. Since the subject is critical in many modern applications such as mathematical finance, quantitative management, telecommunications, signal processing, bioinformatics, as well as traditional ones such as insurance, social science andengineering, the authors have rectified deficiencies in traditional lecture-based methods by collecting together a wealth of exercises with complete solutions, adapted to needs and skills of students. Following on from the success of Probability and Statistics by Example: Basic Probability and Statistics, the authors here concentrate on random processes, particularly Markov processes, emphasising modelsrather than general constructions. Basic mathematical facts are supplied as and when they are needed andhistorical information is sprinkled throughout.
Автор: Guo Название: Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes ISBN: 3642025463 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642025464 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10449 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Theory and Applications. .
Автор: Li Название: Measure-Valued Branching Markov Processes ISBN: 3642150039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642150036 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8359 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Measure-valued branching processes arise as high density limits of branching particle systems. The Dawson-Watanabe superprocess is a special class of those. The author constructs superprocesses with Borel right underlying motions and general branching mechanisms and shows the existence of their Borel right realizations. He then uses transformations to derive the existence and regularity of several different forms of the superprocesses. This treatment simplifies the constructions and gives useful perspectives. Martingale problems of superprocesses are discussed under Feller type assumptions. The most important feature of the book is the systematic treatment of immigration superprocesses and generalized Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes based on skew convolution semigroups. The volume addresses researchers in measure-valued processes, branching processes, stochastic analysis, biological and genetic models, and graduate students in probability theory and stochastic processes.
