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Minimax strategies for average cost stochastic games with an application to inventory models. (English) Zbl 0619.90099

We consider a zero-sum average cost stochastic game with an unbounded lower semi-continuous cost function, and by using the contraction property for the average case we give sufficient conditions for which there exists a minimax stationary strategy. Also, we formulate a minimax inventory model as a stochastic game and show that for any \(\epsilon >0\) there exists an \(\epsilon\)-minimax random (s,S) ordering policy, which is a modification of (s,S) ordering policy, under some weak conditions.

MSC:

91A15 Stochastic games, stochastic differential games
91A60 Probabilistic games; gambling
90B05 Inventory, storage, reservoirs
91A05 2-person games
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