Abstract
The operation of complex environmental systems usually accounts for multiple, conflicting objectives, whose presence imposes to explicitly consider the preference structure of the parties involved. Multi-objective Markov Decision Processes are a useful mathematical framework for the resolution of such sequential, decision-making problems. However, the computational requirements of the available optimization techniques limit their application to problems involving few objectives. In real-world applications it is therefore common practice to select few, representative objectives with respect to which the problem is solved. This paper proposes a dimensionality reduction approach, based on the Non-negative Principal Component Analysis (NPCA), to aggregate the original objectives into a reduced number of principal components, with respect to which the optimization problem is solved. The approach is evaluated on the daily operation of a multi-purpose water reservoir (Tono Dam, Japan) with 10 operating objectives, and compared against a 5-objectives formulation of the same problem. Results show that the NPCA-based approach provides a better representation of the Pareto front, especially in terms of consistency and solution diversity.
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