Communicating MDPs: Equivalence and LP properties

  • Authors:
  • Jerzy A. Filar;Todd A. Schultz

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD 21228, USA;School of Business Administration, Augusta College, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

It is shown that the communicating property of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) is equivalent to satisfaction of sets of linear equations. A mapping between the 'multichain' and 'unichain' linear programs for undiscounted MDPs is developed by applying this equivalence. The mapping is used to prove that the simpler linear program solves communicating MDPs.