Stochastic Systems Divergence through Reinforcement Learning: How to use artificial intelligence to validate stochastic systems - Softcover

Zhioua, Sami

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3847339710 ISBN 13: 9783847339717

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Modelling real-life systems and phenomena using mathematical based formalisms is ubiquitous in science and engineering. The reason is that mathematics offer a suitable framework to carry out formal and rigorous analysis of these systems. For instance, in software engineering, formal methods are among the most efficient tools to identify flaws in software. The behavior of many real-life systems is inherently stochastic which require stochastic models such as labelled Markov processes (LMPs), Markov decision processes (MDPs), predictive state representations (PSRs), etc. This thesis is about quantifying the difference between stochastic systems. The important point of the thesis is that reinforcement learning (RL), a branch of artificial intelligence particularly efficient in presence of uncertainty, can be used to quantify efficiently the divergence between stochastic systems. The key idea is to define an MDP out of the systems to be compared and then to interpret the optimal value of the MDP as the divergence between them. The most appealing feature of the proposed approach is that it does not rely on the knowledge of the internal structure of the systems.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3847339710
• ISBN 13: 9783847339717
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 164
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