We extend a result by Cavazos-Cadena and Lasserre on the existence of strong 1-optimal stationary policies in Markov decision chains with countable state spaces, uniformly ergodic transition probabilities and bounded costs to a larger class of models with unbounded costs and the so-called...

We extend a result by Cavazos-Cadena and Lasserre on the existence of strong 1-optimal stationary policies in Markov decision chains with countable state spaces, uniformly ergodic transition probabilities and bounded costs to a larger class of models with unbounded costs and the so-called...

In this paper we develop the convex analytic approach to a discounted discrete-time Markov decision process (DTMDP) in Borel state and action spaces with N constraints. Unlike the classic discounted models, we allow a non-constant discount factor. After defining and characterizing the...

We consider a two player finite state-action general sum single controller constrained stochastic game with both discounted and average cost criteria. We consider the situation where player 1 has subscription-based constraints and player 2, who controls the transition probabilities, has...