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3.0 out of 5 stars
Specialized Topic, too many typos, March 9, 2003
By A Customer
This review is from: Constrained Markov Decision Processes (Stochastic Modeling Series) (Hardcover)
This is a monograph, not a textbook, and the author says so in the first sentence of the introduction.
Consequently (?) the mathematical sophistication required varies very widely from one page to the next. Also, it makes no attempt to be self contained, but refers freely to other sources.
The topic is quite specialized, but the need to consider it is argued well.
Unfortunately, it does not contain many examples.
Particularly annoying is the almost unconstrained number of typos, one of the worst books I have seen in this respect.
The book is certainly not an introduction to this topic, suitable for self study, but rather a book written by one specialist for other specialists. This I suppose was the author's intention.
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