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A Concise Introduction to Decentralized POMDPs

  • First book dedicated to this topic
  • Suitable for researchers and graduate students in AI
  • Assumes prior familiarity with agents, probability, and game theory
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Intelligent Systems (BRIEFSINSY)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Multiagent Systems Under Uncertainty

    • Frans A. Oliehoek, Christopher Amato
    Pages 1-9
  3. The Decentralized POMDP Framework

    • Frans A. Oliehoek, Christopher Amato
    Pages 11-32
  4. Finite-Horizon Dec-POMDPs

    • Frans A. Oliehoek, Christopher Amato
    Pages 33-40
  5. Exact Finite-Horizon Planning Methods

    • Frans A. Oliehoek, Christopher Amato
    Pages 41-53
  6. Approximate and Heuristic Finite-Horizon Planning Methods

    • Frans A. Oliehoek, Christopher Amato
    Pages 55-67
  7. Infinite-Horizon Dec-POMDPs

    • Frans A. Oliehoek, Christopher Amato
    Pages 69-77
  8. Infinite-Horizon Planning Methods: Discounted Cumulative Reward

    • Frans A. Oliehoek, Christopher Amato
    Pages 79-89
  9. Further Topics

    • Frans A. Oliehoek, Christopher Amato
    Pages 91-114
  10. Conclusion

    • Frans A. Oliehoek, Christopher Amato
    Pages 115-116
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 117-134

About this book

This book introduces multiagent planning under uncertainty as formalized by decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs). The intended audience is researchers and graduate students working in the fields of artificial intelligence related to sequential decision making: reinforcement learning, decision-theoretic planning for single agents, classical multiagent planning, decentralized control, and operations research. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Elect Eng, Electr & CS, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Frans A. Oliehoek

  • Intelligence Lab, G472, MIT, Comp Sci & Artificial, Cambridge, USA

    Christopher Amato

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Softcover Book USD 79.99
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