Hordijk, Arie; Yushkevich, Alexander A. - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 49 (1999) 1, pp. 1-39
This paper is the first part of a study of Blackwell optimal policies in Markov decision chains with a Borel state space and unbounded rewards. We prove here the existence of deterministic stationary policies which are Blackwell optimal in the class of all, in general randomized, stationary...