1. DESIGN AS A MARKOV DECISION PROCESS: A METHOD FOR BROAD AND EFFICIENT TRADESPACE EXPLORATION Open Access Author: Chhabra, Jaskanwal Preet Title: DESIGN AS A MARKOV DECISION PROCESS: A METHOD FOR BROAD AND EFFICIENT TRADESPACE EXPLORATION Graduate Program: Civil Engineering Keywords: Reinforcement learningDesign explorationMulti-fidelitySequential Decision ProcessSurrogate modelingGaussian process File: Download PhD_Dissertation.pdf Committee Members: Gordon P. Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-AdvisorGordon P. Warn, Committee Chair/Co-ChairKonstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee MemberVenkataraman Shankar, Committee MemberTimothy Simpson, Outside Member