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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yiqin Lv , Qi Wang , Dong Liang , Zheng Xie

This paper presents the concepts of exact, null, and approximate controllability in the Stackelberg-Nash sense for abstract forward and backward stochastic evolution equations, involving two types of controls: leaders and followers. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Abdellatif Elgrou , Omar Oukdach

This paper is devoted to studying null controllability for a class of stochastic fourth order semi-discrete parabolic equations, where the spatial variable is discretized with finite difference scheme and the time is kept as a continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Yu Wang , Qingmei Zhao

This paper focuses on multi-stage coordination for a population of thermostatically controlled loads (TCL). Each load maximizes the individual utility in response to an energy price, while the coordinator determines the price to maximize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Sen Li , Wei Zhang , Jianming Lian , Karanjit Kalsi

In this paper, we investigate the control synthesis problem for Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications in the presence of uncontrollable agents. Existing works mainly address this problem in a robust control setting by assuming the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Bohan Cui , Xinyi Yu , Alessandro Giua , Xiang Yin

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm to solve online Stackelberg games, featuring multiple followers, in a follower-agnostic manner. Unlike previous works, our approach works even when leader has no knowledge about the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Chinmay Maheshwari , James Cheng , S. Shankar Sasty , Lillian Ratliff , Eric Mazumdar

We study Stackelberg equilibria in finitely repeated games, where the leader commits to a strategy that picks actions in each round and can be adaptive to the history of play (i.e. they commit to an algorithm). In particular, we study…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Natalie Collina , Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran , Michael Kearns

In this paper, we continue the study of some controllability issues for the forward stochastic heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions. The main novelty in the present paper consists of considering only one control without extra…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Mahmoud Baroun , Said Boulite , Abdellatif Elgrou , Omar Oukdach

This paper investigates a linear quadratic mean field leader-follower team problem, where the model involves one leader and a large number of weakly-coupled interactive followers. The leader and the followers cooperate to optimize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Jianhui Huang , Bing-Chang Wang , Tinghan Xie

We study a Stackelberg strategy subject to the evolutionary linearized micropolar fluids equations in domains with moving boundaries, considering a Nash multi-objective equilibrium (non necessarily cooperative) for the "follower players"…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Isaías Pereira de Jesus

This paper investigates a robust incentive Stackelberg stochastic differential game problem for a linear-quadratic mean field system, where the model uncertainty appears in the drift term of the leader's state equation. Moreover, both the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Na Xiang , Jingtao Shi

In this paper we use a Stackelberg-Nash strategy to show the local null controllability of a parabolic equation where the diffusion coefficient is the product of a degenerate function in space and a nonlocal term. We consider one control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Juan Límaco , João Carlos Barreira , Suerlan Silva , Luis P. Yapu

This paper provides a systematic study of the robust Stackelberg equilibrium (RSE), which naturally generalizes the widely adopted solution concept of the strong Stackelberg equilibrium (SSE). The RSE accounts for any possible…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiarui Gan , Minbiao Han , Jibang Wu , Haifeng Xu

Stackelberg games have been widely used to model interactive decision-making problems in a variety of domains such as energy systems, transportation, cybersecurity, and human-robot interaction. However, existing algorithms for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Yansong Li , Shuo Han

We prove the null controllability of a one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equation with drift and a singular potential. Here, we consider a weighted Neumann boundary control at the left endpoint, where the potential arises. We use a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Leandro Galo-Mendoza , Marcos López-García

In this paper, we study the null controllability for parabolic SPDEs involving both the state and the gradient of the state. To start with, an improved global Carleman estimate for linear forward (resp. backward) parabolic SPDEs with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Lei Zhang , Fan Xu , Bin Liu

This paper is concerned with a linear-quadratic partially observed Stackelberg stochastic differential game with correlated state and observation noises, where the diffusion coefficient does not contain the control variable and the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Yueyang Zheng , Jingtao Shi

We discuss an open-loop backward Stackelberg differential game involving single leader and single follower. Unlike most Stackelberg game literature, the state to be controlled is characterized by a backward stochastic differential equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Xinwei Feng , Ying Hu , Jianhui Huang

This contribution deals with a two-level discrete decision problem, a so-called Stackelberg strategic game: A Subset Sum setting is addressed with a set $N$ of items with given integer weights. One distinguished player, the leader, may…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Ulrich Pferschy , Gaia Nicosia , Andrea Pacifici

The multilevel reverse Stackelberg game is considered. In this game, the leader controls the outcome by announcing a strategy as a function of decision variables of the followers to his/her own decision space. Corresponding to the leader's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Seyfe Belete Worku , Birilew Belayneh Tsegaw , Semu Mitiku Kassa