Roll Number
134190003
Category
TA
Topics for PhD Qualifiers
Orals
1. Markov Decision Processes
2. Discrete Event Simulation
1. Markov Decision Processes
2. Discrete Event Simulation
Elective1
Description and Structure of MDP, Structure of MDP, Finite Horizon MDP, Infinite Horizon Discounted MDP, Dynamic Programming, LP formulation, Optimal Stopping, Infinite Horizon Average Cost MDP, Value and Policy Iterations, Continuous time MDP.
Elective2
Introduction to Simulation, Review of probability & statistics,Mechanism of Discrete event simulation, Random number/ variate generation, Input data analysis, Output data analysis, Verification & Validation of models, Evaluating & comparing alternatives, Monte Carlo simulation
PhD. Supervisor (if decided)
Prof. Veeraruna Kavitha