Engineering · Control Systems Engineering
A topic within Control Systems Engineering, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Engineering.
2 works
Richard Bellman
States the principle of optimality — that an optimal policy's remaining decisions must be optimal given the state that results from the earlier ones — turning multistage decision problems into a recursion solvable stage by stage rather than all at once.
Richard Bellman
States a principle of optimality — an optimal policy has the property that, whatever the initial decision, the remaining decisions must be optimal for the resulting state — and uses it to turn multistage decision problems into a recursive functional equation.
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