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Operations research

an index policy for restless bandit problems that ranks projects by a subsidy for passivity, extending Gittins to arms that change when idle.

In operations research, Whittle index refers to an index policy for restless bandit problems that ranks projects by a subsidy for passivity, extending Gittins to arms that change when idle. This meaning comes from Whittle (1988) in Journal of Applied Probability.[1]

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References

Whittle, P. (1988). Restless bandits: activity allocation in a changing world. Journal of Applied Probability, 25(A), 287-298. https://doi.org/10.2307/3214163

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