Optimal control strategies in delayed sharing information structures

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1606-1620

  Nayyar, Ashutosh ^a   Mahajan, Aditya ^b   Teneketzis, Demosthenis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Markov decision theory; non classical information structures; stochastic control; team theory

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL INFORMATION; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; MARKOV DECISION THEORY; OPTIMAL CONTROL STRATEGY; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; SEQUENTIAL DECOMPOSITION; SHARING INFORMATION; SOLUTION APPROACH; STOCHASTIC CONTROL; TEAM THEORY; TIME STEP;

CONTROLLERS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DECISION THEORY; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 79960111187     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2089381     Document Type: Article

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