TY - BOOK ID - 5314470 TI - Dynamic programming. PY - 2003 SN - 0486428095 9780486428093 PB - Mineola Dover DB - UniCat KW - Dynamic programming KW - Programmation dynamique KW - Programming KW - Dynamic programming. KW - markov-processen KW - operations research KW - stochastische modellen KW - Mathematical optimization KW - Programming (Mathematics) KW - Systems engineering UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5314470 AB - An introduction to the mathematical theory of multistage decision processes, this text takes a "functional equation" approach to the discovery of optimum policies. Written by a leading developer of such policies, it presents a series of methods, uniqueness and existence theorems, and examples for solving the relevant equations. The text examines existence and uniqueness theorems, the optimal inventory equation, bottleneck problems in multistage production processes, a new formalism in the calculus of variation, strategies behind multistage games, and Markovian decision processes. Each chapter concludes with a problem set that Eric V. Denardo of Yale University, in his informative new introduction, calls "a rich lode of applications and research topics." 1957 edition. 37 figures. ER -