A gaming approach to networked infrastructure management

Abstract

Operational decision-making processes for networked infrastructure management often occur as a multiactor planning problem, implying these are based on negotiations between different stakeholders in addition to available system quality information. As such, does more accurate data about actual structural condition lead to other or better decision-making? A serious game is introduced, Maintenance in Motion, aiming at investigating the influence of information quality on rehabilitation decisions, for single-and multi-actor decision-making. Players manage drinking water, gas, sewer and street infrastructures. They are to balance their individual goal, cost-effectiveness, with their team utility, increasing overall infrastructure quality to minimise failure while minimising overall public costs. The game design, calibration and solution space are presented. this is an Open access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution-noncommercial-noderivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

The influence of information quality on decision-making for networked infrastructure management

“…The game is a descriptive research instrument to simulate and analyse single and multiactor decision-making for rehabilitation of multiple networked infrastructures, under conditions of perfect and imperfect information about structural condition. A detailed description of the game design and calibration was described in Van Riel, Post, Langeveld, Herder, and Clemens (2016). This paper further extends this research track by presenting the results obtained from actual infrastructure managers in practice.…”

“…The following paragraphs present the most relevant game design elements for the purpose of this paper. Additional information is described in (Van Riel, Post, et al, 2016).…”

Interaction Modalities Used on Serious Games for Upper Limb Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review

“…Only 41 articles met the criteria explained earlier. Conversely, 80 articles did not meet the criteria because they (i) focus on rehabilitation on body parts different to upper limbs or focus on other types of rehabilitation [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44] ; (ii) have purposes different to rehabilitation [45][46][47][48][49][50][51] (e.g., measurement of personal performance and development of musical skills); (iii) are editorial notes, reviews, and guidelines to develop serious games 1, ; (iv) are incomplete articles 74 ; (v) are up to three pages in length [75][76][77][78] ; (vi) are not written in English [79][80][81] ; and (vii) are out of the scope of this review. 82 This review includes articles with QualSyst percentages q70%.…”

Factors affecting the costs and timing of water main replacement in a water distribution network

“…In reality, the water utility can influence and initiate coordination opportunities. Studies have modelled the dynamics of multi-stakeholder decision making in intervention coordination (van Riel et al, 2017) and several algorithms have been developed that consider the benefits of grouping spatially proximate infrastructure components of multiple municipal networks for the purposes of coordinated intervention planning (Carey and Lueke, 2013, Tscheikner-Gratl et al, 2016, Kielhauser et al, 2016, Kielhauser and Adey, 2018.…”