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Optimal stopping in a partially observable binary-valued markov chain with costly perfect information

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

George E. Monahan
George E. Monahan*
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology
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∗Postal address: College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The problem of optimal stopping in a Markov chain when there is imperfect state information is formulated as a partially observable Markov decision process. Properties of the optimal value function are developed. It is shown that under mild conditions the optimal policy is well structured. An efficient algorithm, which uses the structural information in the computation of the optimal policy, is presented.

Keywords

PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESSESDYNAMIC PROGRAMMING

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Research Paper
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 72 - 81
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1982 

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