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Abstract: This article deals with a risk probability minimization problem for finite horizon continuous-time Markov decision processes with unbounded transition rates and history-dependent policies.

Imagine you and I decide to play a simple game of chance. We each throw $50 into a pot and start flipping a coin. Heads, you get a point; tails, I get one. The first person to reach 10 points walks ...

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native ...

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