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Details for Professor Sean Collins
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Sean Collins |
| Job title | Emeritus Professor |
| Department | School of Mathematics University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.Sc.(Leeds), M.Sc. (Manc), Ph.D.(Manc.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | optimisation under uncertainty behavioural biology applied probability stochastic optimisation game theory reinforcement learning behavioural ecology |
| Areas of expertise | My research interests cover a variety of themes in the area of stochastic optimisation, including the theory of Markov decision processes, game theory and reinforcement learning. Much of my work concerns the applications ideas from these areas to problems in queuing theory and behavioural ecology. |