{"has_accepted_license":"1","project":[{"call_identifier":"FWF","grant_number":"P 23499-N23","name":"Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification","_id":"2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425"},{"grant_number":"S11407","call_identifier":"FWF","name":"Game Theory","_id":"25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425"},{"call_identifier":"FP7","grant_number":"279307","name":"Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications","_id":"2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425"},{"_id":"2587B514-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","name":"Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship"}],"volume":10,"pubrep_id":"428","ec_funded":1,"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"http://repository.ist.ac.at/id/eprint/428"}],"abstract":[{"text":"We study Markov decision processes (MDPs) with multiple limit-average (or mean-payoff) functions. We consider two different objectives, namely, expectation and satisfaction objectives. Given an MDP with κ limit-average functions, in the expectation objective the goal is to maximize the expected limit-average value, and in the satisfaction objective the goal is to maximize the probability of runs such that the limit-average value stays above a given vector. We show that under the expectation objective, in contrast to the case of one limit-average function, both randomization and memory are necessary for strategies even for ε-approximation, and that finite-memory randomized strategies are sufficient for achieving Pareto optimal values. Under the satisfaction objective, in contrast to the case of one limit-average function, infinite memory is necessary for strategies achieving a specific value (i.e. randomized finite-memory strategies are not sufficient), whereas memoryless randomized strategies are sufficient for ε-approximation, for all ε > 0. We further prove that the decision problems for both expectation and satisfaction objectives can be solved in polynomial time and the trade-off curve (Pareto curve) can be ε-approximated in time polynomial in the size of the MDP and 1/ε, and exponential in the number of limit-average functions, for all ε > 0. Our analysis also reveals flaws in previous work for MDPs with multiple mean-payoff functions under the expectation objective, corrects the flaws, and allows us to obtain improved results.","lang":"eng"}],"status":"public","intvolume":" 10","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"date_updated":"2021-01-12T06:56:11Z","quality_controlled":"1","day":"14","month":"02","issue":"1","title":"Markov decision processes with multiple long-run average objectives","_id":"2234","doi":"10.2168/LMCS-10(1:13)2014","publication_identifier":{"issn":["18605974"]},"type":"journal_article","citation":{"apa":"Brázdil, T., Brožek, V., Chatterjee, K., Forejt, V., & Kučera, A. (2014). Markov decision processes with multiple long-run average objectives. Logical Methods in Computer Science. International Federation of Computational Logic. https://doi.org/10.2168/LMCS-10(1:13)2014","short":"T. Brázdil, V. Brožek, K. Chatterjee, V. Forejt, A. Kučera, Logical Methods in Computer Science 10 (2014).","mla":"Brázdil, Tomáš, et al. “Markov Decision Processes with Multiple Long-Run Average Objectives.” Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol. 10, no. 1, International Federation of Computational Logic, 2014, doi:10.2168/LMCS-10(1:13)2014.","ieee":"T. Brázdil, V. Brožek, K. Chatterjee, V. Forejt, and A. Kučera, “Markov decision processes with multiple long-run average objectives,” Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol. 10, no. 1. International Federation of Computational Logic, 2014.","chicago":"Brázdil, Tomáš, Václav Brožek, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Vojtěch Forejt, and Antonín Kučera. “Markov Decision Processes with Multiple Long-Run Average Objectives.” Logical Methods in Computer Science. International Federation of Computational Logic, 2014. https://doi.org/10.2168/LMCS-10(1:13)2014.","ama":"Brázdil T, Brožek V, Chatterjee K, Forejt V, Kučera A. Markov decision processes with multiple long-run average objectives. Logical Methods in Computer Science. 2014;10(1). doi:10.2168/LMCS-10(1:13)2014","ista":"Brázdil T, Brožek V, Chatterjee K, Forejt V, Kučera A. 2014. Markov decision processes with multiple long-run average objectives. 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