Meybodi, Mohammad Reza,2013-08-162013-08-161983http://hdl.handle.net/11244/5130Conditions for (epsilon)-optimality of a general class of absorbing barrier and strongly absolutely expedient learning algorithms are derived. As a consequence, a new class of learning algorithms having identical behavior under the occurrence of success and failure are obtained. An application of learning automata to the priority assignment in a queuing system with unknown characteristics is given.iv, 119 leaves :Computer Science.Thesis