Competitive Markov Decision Processes -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Mathematical Programming Perspective -- 2 Markov Decision Processes: The Noncompetitive Case -- 3 Stochastic Games via Mathematical Programming -- Part II Existence, Structure and Applications...

This book is devoted to a unified treatment of Competitive Markov Decision Processes. It examines these processes from the standpoints of modeling and of optimization, providing newcomers to the field with an accessible account of algorithms, theory, and applications, while also supplying...

This paper studies the mean-variance portfolio selection under the assumption that the market state is modulated by a hidden Markov chain which is unobservable to investors. We employ a game-theoretic formulation to address the time-inconsistency arising in mean-variance analysis for portfolio...