Decision Making in Large Scale Systems

Diagram of the game Tetris.

Tetris game strategies can be analyzed using the value function approximation techniques described in this course -- see lecture session 10. (Illustration courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare.)

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MIT Course Number

2.997

As Taught In

Spring 2004

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

This course is an introduction to the theory and application of large-scale dynamic programming. Topics include Markov decision processes, dynamic programming algorithms, simulation-based algorithms, theory and algorithms for value function approximation, and policy search methods. The course examines games and applications in areas such as dynamic resource allocation, finance and queueing networks.

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Daniela De Farias. 2.997 Decision Making in Large Scale Systems. Spring 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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