In the paper "UCB-Type Learning Algorithms with Kaplan–Meier Estimator for Lost Sales Inventory Models with Lead Times," Lyu, Zhang, and Xin propose an upper confidence bound–type learning framework.

Military deployments to environments lacking basic infrastructure -- whether humanitarian missions or combat operations -- involve extensive logistical planning. As part of a research project for ...

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Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 872-885 (14 pages) The present work deals with the comparison of (discrete time) Markov decision processes (MDPs), which differ ...