System-level integration and optimization of food-energy-water systems (FEWS) require coordination of multiple agencies and decision-makers and incorporating their interdependence. In general, such coordination might be hard to achieve. As a result, the literature on FEWS management either optimizes the operations for one sector (or one decision-maker), or models interdependence among the sectors without optimizing their operations. In this article, we develop a novel multi-agent management optimization approach that is able to incorporate stochasticity and uncertainty in the system’s dynamics and interdependence of the water and energy resources for food production. The proposed method is the first attempt to utilize fundamentals of decision and game theories to optimize operations of multi-agent FEWS. We specifically focus on differentiating between (1) cooperative decision optimization of the operations, where all decision-makers cooperate to achieve the best outcome for the ...

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使用随机博弈的综合食品-能源-水系统的多主体管理：从纳什均衡到社会最优

食品能源水系统（FEWS）的系统级集成和优化需要多个机构和决策者之间的协调，并纳入它们的相互依赖性。通常，这种协调可能很难实现。结果，有关FEWS管理的文献要么优化了一个部门（或一名决策者）的运营，要么在不优化其运营的情况下对各部门之间的相互依赖性进行了建模。在本文中，我们开发了一种新颖的多主体管理优化方法，该方法能够将随机性和不确定性纳入系统动态以及食品生产用水和能源的相互依赖性中。所提出的方法是首次尝试利用决策和博弈论的基础来优化多主体FEWS的操作。