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Y
i
02
(t
f
) 0 ×0 ×···×0 Y
i
10
(t
f
) Q
f
i
×0 ×···×0
Y
i
11
(t
f
) Q
f
i
×0 ×···×0 Y
i
12
(t
f
) 0 ×0 ×···×0
Y
i
20
(t
f
) 0 ×0 ×···×0 Y
i
21
(t
f
) 0 ×0 ×···×0
Y
i
22
(t
f
) 0 ×0 ×···×0
˘
Z
i
0
(t
f
) 0 ×0 ×···×0
˘
Z
i
1
(t
f
) 0 ×0 ×···×0
˘
Z
i
2
(t
f
) 0 ×0 ×···×0
Z
i
(t
f
) 0 ×0 ×···×0
Note that for each agent i the product system (3.58)–(3.70) uniquely determines
Y
i
00
, Y
i
01
, Y
i
02
, Y
i
10
, Y
i
11
, Y
i
12
, Y
i
20
, Y
i
21
, Y
i
22
,
˘
Z
i
0
,
˘
Z
i
1
,
˘
Z
i
2
, and Z
i
once the admissible
4-tuple (K
i
,K
zi
,p
i
,p
zi
) is specified. Thus, Y
i
00
, Y
i
01
, Y
i
02
, Y
i
10
, Y
i
11
, Y
i
12
, Y
i
20
, Y
i
21
,
Y
i
22
,
˘
Z
i
0
,
˘
Z
i
1
,
˘
Z
i
2
, and Z
i
are considered as the functions of K
i
, K
zi
, p
i
, and p
zi
.
The performance index for the interconnected system can therefore be formulated
in terms of K
i
, K
zi
, p
i
, and p
zi
for agent i.
The subject of risk taking has been of great interest not only to control system de-
signers of engineered systems but also to decision makers of financial systems. One
approach to study risk in stochastic control system is exemplified in the ubiquitous
theory of linear-quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control whose preference of expected
value of performance measure associated with a class of stochastic systems is min-
imized against all random realizations of the uncertain environment. Other aspects
of performance distributions that do not appear in the classical theory of LQG are
variance, skewness, kurtosis, etc. For instance, it may nevertheless be true that some
performance with negative skewness appears riskier than performance with positive
skewness when expectation and variance are held constant. If skewness does, in-
deed, play an essential role in determining the perception of risk, then the range of
applicability of the present theory should be restricted, for example, to symmetric
or equally skewed performance measures.
There have been several studies that attempt to generalize the present LQG the-
ory to account for the effects of variance [11] and [6] or of other description of
probability density [12] on the perceived riskiness of performance measures. The
contribution of this research is to directly address the perception of risk via a selec-
tive set of performance distribution characteristics of its outcomes governed by ei-
ther dispersion, skewness, flatness, etc. or a combination thereof. Figure 3.4 depicts
some possible interpretations on measures of performance risk for control decision
under uncertainty.
Definition 1 (Risk-value aware performance index) Associate with agent i the
k
i
∈Z
+
and the sequence μ
i
={μ
i
r
≥0}
k
i
r=1
with μ
i
1
> 0. Then, for (t
0
,x
0
i
) given,
the risk-value aware performance index
φ
i
0
:{t
0
}×
R
n
i
×n
i
k
i
×
R
n
i
k
i
×R
k
i
→R
+
over a finite optimization horizon is defined by a risk-value model to reflect the
tradeoff between value and riskiness of the Chi-squared type performance mea-