RALPH: Markov Assumption

Description

• The Markov Assumption refers to the dependence of temporal states represented in the architecture. Under the Markov Assumption the values in any state are only influenced by the values of the state that directly preceded it.
• This is an important simplifying assumption which reduces the complexity of planning sequences of actions. It allows the influence diagrams to remove states once they have left a specified time window because it is assumed that the state no longer has any effect on the current state.