Sub- and superoptimality principles of dynamic programming revisited

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1429-1436

  Swiech A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential games; Dynamic programming; Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Isaacs equations; Optimality principles; Viscosity solutions

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CONTROL THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FUNCTIONS; GAME THEORY; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

DIFFERENTIAL GAMES; HAMILTON JACOBI BELLMAN ISAACS EQUATIONS; LIPSCHITZ CONSTANT; SUBOPTIMALITY PRINCIPLES; SUPER OPTIMALITY PRINCIPLES; VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0030127283     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0362-546X(94)00348-L     Document Type: Article

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