RLSO index

[Warren Powell]

It has been my experience that you can see into the soul of a book through a good index.  The index for my upcoming: Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Optimization: A unified framework for sequential decisions

is now available at

http://tinyurl.com/RLSOindex

You can also access the table of contents at

http://tinyurl.com/RLSOTableofContents

I have to emphasize that I am taking a very broad view of "reinforcement learning," since I think this is the direction the field has been taking over the past 20 years.  In chapter 2 I give a brief overview of 15 different fields (in section 2.1), I pull all of these together into my universal framework in section 2.2  For people who have never encountered these fields, skimming section 2.1 can be a nice tour.  Note that *all* of these fields can be approached using the tools of reinforcement learning.

Warren

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Warren B. Powell

Chief Analytics Officer, Optimal Dynamics

Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

http://www.castlelab.princeton.edu