Planning and Decision Processes

Content

• Planning and acting with deterministic models,
• Contrary planning for games: Minimax principle, execution of sequential plans: prediction
• Planning and acting with temporal models
• Planning and acting with probabilistic models
• Decision theory, Markov decision processes, with (Markov decision processes, MDPs) and without information
  about the current state (Partially Observable MDPs, POMDPs), centralized and decentralized control (DEC-POMDPs)
• Reinforcement learning
• Exploration vs. exploitation, theory of multi-armed bandits, Monte-Carlo tree search (AlphaZero)
• Factorization techniques for decision-making processes