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Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes

Theory and Applications

By: Xianping Guo,Onésimo Hernández-Lerma

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Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes

Theory and Applications

By: Xianping Guo,Onésimo Hernández-Lerma

Continuous-time Markov decision processes (MDPs), also known as controlled Markov chains, are used for modeling decision-making problems that arise in operations research (for instance, inventory, manufacturing, and queueing systems), computer science, communications engineering, control of populations (such as fisheries and epidemics), and management science, among many other fields. This volume provides a unified, systematic, self-contained presentation of recent developments on the theory and applications of continuous-time MDPs. The MDPs in this volume include most of the cases that arise in applications, because they allow unbounded transition and reward/cost rates. Much of the material appears for the first time in book form.

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240

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Springer Science & Business Media

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ISBN 10

3642025471

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Progress in Planar Optical Waveguides

By: Xianping Wang,Cheng Yin,Zhuangqi Cao

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Progress in Planar Optical Waveguides

By: Xianping Wang,Cheng Yin,Zhuangqi Cao

This book provides a comprehensive description of various slab waveguide structures ranged from graded-index waveguide to symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide. In this book, the transfer Matrix method is developed and applied to analyze the simplest case and the complex generalizations. A novel symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide structure is proposed and systematically investigated for several issues of interest, such as biochemical sensing, Goos-Hänchen shift and the slow light effect, etc. Besides, this book summarizes the authors’ research works on waveguides over the last decade. The readers who are familiar with basic optics theory may find this book easy to read and rather inspiring.

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