From Shortest Paths to Reinforcement Learning

Paolo Brandimarte is full professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Politecnico di Torino, Italy, where he teaches courses on Business Analytics, Risk Management, and Operations Research. He is the author of more than ten books on the application of optimization and simulation methods to problems ranging from quantitative finance to production and supply chain management.

• The dynamic programming principle.- Implementing dynamic programming.- Modeling for dynamic programming.- Numerical dynamic programming for discrete states.- Approximate dynamic programming and reinforcement learning for discrete states.- Numerical dynamic programming for continuous states.- Approximate dynamic programming and reinforcement learning for continuous states.