A topology for Team Policies and Existence of Optimal Team Policies in Stochastic Team Theory

Convex Analysis in Decentralized Stochastic Control, Strategic Measures, and Optimal Solutions

This paper is concerned with the properties of the sets of strategic measures induced by admissible team policies in decentralized stochastic control and the convexity properties in dynamic team problems. To facilitate a convex analytical approach, strategic measures for team problems are introduced. Properties such as convexity, and compactness and Borel measurability under weak convergence to...

From Mid-Level Policy Analysis to Macro-Level Political Economy; Comment on “Developing a Framework for a Program Theory-Based Approach to Evaluating Policy Processes and Outcomes: Health in All Policies in South Australia”

This latest contribution by the evaluation research team at Flinders University/Southgate Institute on their multiyear study of South Australia’s Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiative is simultaneously frustrating, exemplary, and partial. It is frustrating because it does not yet reveal the extent to which the initiative achieved its stated outcomes; that awaits further papers. It is exempla...

Decentralized Stochastic Control : A Tutorial

This talk is concerned with decentralized control problems and their optimal solutions. Such problems are increasingly important, especially in the context of networked control systems. In this talk, we first provide a brief review on information structures in decentralized control, and their characterization and comparison. We establish the connections with classical stochastic control problem...

Optimality Of Monetary And Fiscal Policies In Iran: An Application Of The Stochastic Optimal Control Theory

Ideas for Extending the Approach to Evaluating Health in All Policies in South Australia; Comment on “Developing a Framework for a Program Theory-Based Approach to Evaluating Policy Processes and Outcomes: Health in All Policies in South Australia”

Since 2008, the government of South Australia has been using a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to achieve their strategic plan (South Australia Strategic Plan of 2004). In this commentary, we summarize some of the strengths and contributions of the innovative evaluation framework that was developed by an embedded team of academic researchers. To inform how the use of HiAP is evaluated mo...