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Boutilier et al. (1997) decompose an MDP specied using 2TBNs and an additive reward of the reward function, abstraction is used to generate an MDP referring only to variables relevant to that component.

52 Since certain state variables may be present in multiple 52. Note that the existence of a factored MDP representation is crucial for this abstraction method.

