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标题：Optimality criteria for deterministic discrete-time infinite horizon optimization
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作者：Irwin E. Schochetman ; Robert L. Smith
期刊名称：International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0161-1712
电子版ISSN：1687-0425
出版年度：2005
卷号：2005
DOI：10.1155/IJMMS.2005.57
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：We consider the problem of selecting an optimality criterion, when total costs diverge, in deterministic infinite horizon optimization over discrete time. Our formulation allows for both discrete and continuous state and action spaces, as well as time-varying, that is, nonstationary, data. The task is to choose a criterion that is neither too overselective, so that no policy is optimal, nor too underselective, so that most policies are optimal. We contrast and compare the following optimality criteria: strong, overtaking, weakly overtaking, efficient, and average. However, our focus is on the optimality criterion of efficiency. (A solution is efficient if it is optimal to each of the states through which it passes.) Under mild regularity conditions, we show that efficient solutions always exist and thus are not overselective. As to underselectivity, we provide weak state reachability conditions which assure that every efficient solution is also average optimal, thus providing a sufficient condition for average optima to exist. Our main result concerns the case where the discounted per-period costs converge to zero, while the discounted total costs diverge to infinity. Under the assumption that we can reach from any feasible state any feasible sequence of states in bounded time, we show that every efficient solution is also overtaking, thus providing a sufficient condition for overtaking optima to exist.