Multi-armed Bandit Allocation Indices

by Kevin Glazebrook, Richard Weber, John Gittins

Book Overview

In 1989 the first edition of this book set out Gittins' pioneering index solution to the multi-armed bandit problem and his subsequent investigation of a wide of sequential resource allocation and stochastic scheduling problems. Since then there has been a remarkable flowering of new insights, generalizations and applications, to which Glazebrook and Weber have made major contributions.

This second edition brings the story up to date. There are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470670029
• ISBN13: 9780470670026
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"