This course covers reinforcement learning aka dynamic programming, which is a modeling principle capturing dynamic environments and stochastic nature of events. The main goal is to learn dynamic ...

Mathematical Background: We expect that the student is comfortable with basic mathematics at the level of a U.S. first-year college STEM student. This includes basic notions such as sets and functions ...

This paper develops a formalism within which the application of dynamic programming to discrete, deterministic problems is rigorously studied. The two central concepts underlying this development are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper presents a complete solution, based on Dynamic Programming ideas, of the celebrated Brachistochrone problem whose first solution, ...