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In the last year of my master studies, I have had the opportunity to explore and gain insight into fields of research including planning, reinforcement learning and optimization that I was not familiar with at the start of this project.
This report documents the work on identifying the possibilities of automating the task of learning performance-maximizing Markov Decision Processes from data effectively, performed as a master thesis project in the Algorithmics Group of the Department of Software Technology of the EEMCS Faculty at the Delft University of Technology.

I would like to thank Bruno Lacerda, University of Birmingham, for the tips I got at the start of the project on the usage of the robot simulation software.
Especially, I would like to thank Matthijs Spaan for being my supervisor during this project in which the weekly meetings in which we could exchange ideas were very helpful.

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    Delft, September 2017
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