Optimal strategies maximizing utilitarian social welfare in MDPs with heterogeneous discount factors are pure finite-memory counting strategies synthesizable in polynomial time, while threshold questions for positional strategies are NP-hard.
What is your discount factor? InInternational Conference on Quan- titative Evaluation of Systems and Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, pages 322–336
1 Pith paper cite this work. Polarity classification is still indexing.
1
Pith paper citing it
fields
cs.GT 1years
2026 1verdicts
CONDITIONAL 1representative citing papers
citing papers explorer
-
Social Welfare under Heterogeneous Time Preferences
Optimal strategies maximizing utilitarian social welfare in MDPs with heterogeneous discount factors are pure finite-memory counting strategies synthesizable in polynomial time, while threshold questions for positional strategies are NP-hard.