Markov Decision Processes and Deterministic Büchi Automata

  • Authors:
  • Danièle Beauquier

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory of Algorithmics, Complexity and Logic, University Paris-12, 61 Avenue du Gnl de Gaulle, 94 010 Créteil, France

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We prove that given a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and a fixed subset of its states~F, there is a Markov policy which maximizes everywhere the probability to reach F infinitely often. Moreover such a maximum policy is computable in polytime in the size of the MDP. This result can be applied in order to control a system with randomized or uncertain behavior with respect to a given property to optimize.