Competitive Markov Decision Processes

'Stochastic Games' have been studied by mathematicians, operations researchers, electrical engineers, and economists since the 1950s; the simpler single-controller, noncompetitive version of these models evolved separately under the name of 'Markov Decision Processes'. This book is devoted to a unified treatment of both subjects under the general heading of 'Competitive Markov Decision Processes'. It examines these processes from the standpoints of modeling and of optimization, providing newcome…