ISIPTA'09 - SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
IMPRECISE PROBABILITY: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS

Durham University, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Durham, United Kingdom
Tuesday 14 to Saturday 18 July 2009

ELECTRONIC PROCEEDINGS

Karina Delgado, Leliane Barros, Fabio Cozman, Ricardo Shirota Filho

Representing and Solving Factored Markov Decision Processes with Imprecise Probabilities

Abstract

This paper investigates Factored Markov Decision Processes with Imprecise Probabilities; that is, Markov Decision Processes where transition probabilities are imprecisely specified, and where their specification does not deal directly with states, but rather with factored representations of states. We first define a Factored MDPIP, based on a multilinear formulation for MDPIPs; then we propose a novel algorithm for generation of Gamma-maximin policies for Factored MDPIPs. We also developed a representation language for Factored MDPIPs (based on the standard PPDDL language); finally, we describe experiments with a problem of practical significance, the well-known System Administrator Planning problem.

Keywords. Imprecise Markov Decision Processes (MDPIPs), Probabilistic Planning and PPDDL, Knowledge Representation Languages, Multilinear programming.

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Authors addresses:

Karina Delgado
Rua do Matao 1010
Cidade Universitaria Sao Paulo, SP

Leliane Barros
Departamento de Computacao
Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica
Cidade Universitaria, CEP 05508900
Sao Paulo, SP

Fabio Cozman
Av. Prof. Mello Moraes, 2231
Cidade Univesitaria, CEP 05508-900
Sao Paulo, SP - BRAZIL

Ricardo Shirota Filho
Laboratório de Tomada de Decisão
A/C Prof. Dr. Fabio G. Cozman
Escola Politécnica da USP
Av. Prof. Mello Moraes, 2231
CEP: 05356-000
São Paulo, SP, BRAZIL

E-mail addresses:

Karina Delgado kvd@ime.usp.br
Leliane Barros leliane@ime.usp.br
Fabio Cozman fgcozman@usp.br
Ricardo Shirota Filho ricardo.shirota@poli.usp.br


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