Federated Space Systems’ Trade-Space Exploration for Strategic Robustness

Stern, Jordan L.; Grogan, Paul T.

doi:10.2514/1.a35103

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“…Notwithstanding the aforementioned limitations, this research produced several important findings. Previous research in systems‐of‐systems with interactions characterized by the stag hunt game showed that strategically robust designs protect implementer utility and improve collaboration 12,13,29 . This study shows that strategically robust designs embodied as groundwater wells reduce collaboration in simulated canal irrigation systems with dynamics partly characterized by a commons dilemma.…”

Section: Discussion and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 54%

“…Previous research in systemsof-systems with interactions characterized by the stag hunt game showed that strategically robust designs protect implementer utility and improve collaboration. 12,13,29 This study shows that strategically robust designs embodied as groundwater wells reduce collaboration in simulated canal irrigation systems with dynamics partly characterized by a commons dilemma. The result shows that the dynamics created by differences in payoffs between strategic contexts is an important consideration for system design.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…For the irrigation system specifically, the option to take resources allocated to other actors, which is not present in many other systems-of-systems, reverses the effects of the strategically robust design option on collaboration compared to effects observed in simulated commercial technology collaborations. 12,13 Future work should continue similar exploratory analysis to increase understanding of the strategic implications of the interactions between individual actor behavior and system designs and While not exhaustively explored here, the results also show that canal design and individual adaptations operate similarly to produce robustness, but at different scales. Specifically, canal systems with high 𝜖 require relatively large amounts of labor to operate at optimal efficiency, but can produce can begin producing water with relatively little labor input.…”

Section: F I G U R E 1mentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Strategically robust system‐of‐systems design increases system viability by decreasing constituent system strategic risk stemming from uncertain collaboration. Previous studies of the strategically robust system‐of‐systems design concept include applications to commercial space system design 13 and consumer electronics design 12 . Both studies show that strategically robust designs increase the favorability of collaboration for the constituents and therefore, the system‐of‐systems viability.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This work addresses the gap by developing an ABM and applying it to study a strategically robust system‐of‐systems design concept 13 to model a cooperatively maintained irrigation system used for agricultural production in a region. More specifically, an ABM is developed to examine how individual farmer strategies to secure water supply interact with the shared infrastructure design to affect collaboration on canal infrastructure maintenance and community level agricultural income.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effects of individual strategies for resource access on collaboratively maintained irrigation infrastructure

Stern

Siddiqi

Grogan

2023

Systems Engineering

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Built infrastructure for water and energy supply, transportation, and other such services underpins human well‐being and socioeconomic development. A fundamental understanding of how infrastructure design and user strategies interact can guide important design decisions as well as policy formulation for ensuring long‐term infrastructure viability in conjunction with improved individual user benefits. In this work, an agent based model (ABM) is developed to study this issue for the specific case of irrigation canals. Cooperatively maintained irrigation canals serve essential roles in sustaining agriculture‐based economies in many regions. Canal system design can strongly affect benefits derived by distributed users, regional agricultural output, and the long‐term viability of the shared infrastructure itself. Here, an ABM is used to investigate how an option to use an independent water source interacts with canal design to affect canal maintenance cooperation and farmer income. The independent water source is stylized as a well that provides access to groundwater and represents a strategically robust design option; a design option that reduces the implementer's utility vulnerability to unfavorable actions by other actors. Research in other systems has demonstrated that strategically robust designs can improve both implementer utility and the probability of collaboration. The results of this research, in contrast, demonstrate that the option of individual resource access, the strategically robust design option, as represented by a well, reduces cooperative maintenance in most cases. However, wells also improve farmer income, especially for downstream farmers that are most affected by water theft.

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Section: Discussion and Limitationsmentioning

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confidence: 82%

Section: F I G U R E 1mentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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