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An Introduction to Multi-Environment Markov Decision Processes (Invited Talk)

2026 · International Conference on Concurrency Theory · pp. 4:1-4:17 · 0 citations · 17 references
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The main results obtained for both semantics since the introduction of the model in 2014 are surveyed, which cover reachability, parity and Rabin objectives, under the qualitative criteria (almost-sure, limit-sure and the quantitative value-threshold problem, and the key algorithmic ideas are outlined.

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