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This Chapter continues our research into fuzzy Markov chains. In [4] we employed possibility distributions in finite Markov chains. The rows in a transition matrix were possibility distributions, instead of discrete probability distributions. Using possibilities we went on to look at regular, and absorbing, Markov chains and Markov decision processes.
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Buckley, J.J. (2003). Fuzzy Markov Chains. In: Fuzzy Probabilities. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 115. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86786-6_6
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