A Multiarmed Bandit Approach to Adaptive Water Quality Management.

ABSTRACT: Nonpoint source water quality management is challenged with allocating uncertain management actions and monitoring their performance in the absence of state-dependent decision making. This adaptive management context can be expressed as a multiarmed bandit problem. Multiarmed bandit strategies attempt to balance the exploitation of actions that appear to maximize performance with the exploration of uncertain, but potentially better, actions. We performed a test of multiarmed bandit strategies to inform adaptive water quality management in Massachusetts, USA. Conservation and restoration practitioners were tasked with allocating household wastewater treatments to minimize N inputs to impaired waters. We obtained time series of N monitoring data from 3 wastewater treatment types and organize

SUBMITTER: Martin DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7689691 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature