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This paper presents a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm to represent strategic bidding behavior in freight transport markets. Using this algorithm, we investigate whether feasible market equilibriums arise without any central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Wouter van Heeswijk

Traffic congestion is a serious problem in urban areas. Dynamic congestion pricing is one of the useful schemes to eliminate traffic congestion in strategic scale. However, in the reality, an optimal dynamic congestion pricing is very…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Kimihiro Sato , Toru Seo , Takashi Fuse

We study online learning problems in which a decision maker has to take a sequence of decisions subject to $m$ long-term constraints. The goal of the decision maker is to maximize their total reward, while at the same time achieving small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Alberto Marchesi , Giulia Romano , Nicola Gatti

We study non-atomic congestion games on parallel-link networks with affine cost functions. We investigate the power of machine-learned predictions in the design of coordination mechanisms aimed at minimizing the impact of selfishness. Our…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 George Christodoulou , Vasilis Christoforidis , Alkmini Sgouritsa , Ioannis Vlachos

Leveraging machine learning methods to solve constraint satisfaction problems has shown promising, but they are mostly limited to a static situation where the problem description is completely known and fixed from the beginning. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wook Lee , Frans A. Oliehoek

In the context of `Everything-as-a-Service', the transportation sector has been evolving towards user-centric business models in which customized services and mode-agnostic mobility resources are priced in a unified framework. Yet, in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Haoning Xi , Wei Liu , David Rey , S. Travis Waller , Philip Kilby

This paper presented insights into the implementation of transactive multi-agent systems over flow networks where local resources are decentralized. Agents have local resource demand and supply, and are interconnected through a flow network…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yijun Chen , Zeinab Salehi , Elizabeth L. Ratnam , Ian R. Petersen , Guodong Shi

In 5G and Beyond networks, Artificial Intelligence applications are expected to be increasingly ubiquitous. This necessitates a paradigm shift from the current cloud-centric model training approach to the Edge Computing based collaborative…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Jer Shyuan Ng , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Cyril Leung , Chunyan Miao , Qiang Yang

Online platforms in the Internet Economy commonly incorporate recommender systems that recommend products (or "arms") to users (or "agents"). A key challenge in this domain arises from myopic agents who are naturally incentivized to exploit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xiaowu Dai , Wenlu Xu , Yuan Qi , Michael I. Jordan

In an infinitely repeated general-sum pricing game, independent reinforcement learners may exhibit collusive behavior without any communication, raising concerns about algorithmic collusion. To better understand the learning dynamics, we…

General Economics · Economics 2025-10-07 Bingyan Han

When people choose routes minimizing their individual delay, the aggregate congestion can be much higher compared to that experienced by a centrally-imposed routing. Yet centralized routing is incompatible with the presence of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Mauro Salazar , Dario Paccagnan , Andrea Agazzi , W. P. M. H. , Heemels

Multi-agent networked linear dynamic systems have attracted attention of researchers in power systems, intelligent transportation, and industrial automation. The agents might cooperatively optimize a global performance objective, resulting…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Feier Lian , Aranya Chakrabortty , Alexandra Duel-Hallen

We study the pricing behavior of third-party platforms facing strategic agents. Assuming the platform is a revenue maximizer, it observes market features that generally affect demand. Since only the equilibrium price and quantity are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Rui Ai , David Simchi-Levi , Feng Zhu

Federated learning makes it possible for all parties with data isolation to train the model collaboratively and efficiently while satisfying privacy protection. To obtain a high-quality model, an incentive mechanism is necessary to motivate…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Jingwen Zhang , Yuezhou Wu , Rong Pan

Learning in multi-agent environments is difficult due to the non-stationarity introduced by an opponent's or partner's changing behaviors. Instead of reactively adapting to the other agent's (opponent or partner) behavior, we propose an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Woodrow Z. Wang , Andy Shih , Annie Xie , Dorsa Sadigh

In this paper, we consider the problem of finding a meta-learning online control algorithm that can learn across the tasks when faced with a sequence of $N$ (similar) control tasks. Each task involves controlling a linear dynamical system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Deepan Muthirayan , Dileep Kalathil , Pramod P. Khargonekar

Artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly used by firms to set prices. Previous research shows that they can exhibit collusive behaviour, but how quickly they can do so has so far remained an open question. I show that a modern…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-20 Kevin Michael Frick

Multi-server jobs that request multiple computing resources and hold onto them during their execution dominate modern computing clusters. When allocating the multi-type resources to several co-located multi-server jobs simultaneously in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Zhengzhe Xiang , Xueqiang Yan , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

Price discrimination, which refers to the strategy of setting different prices for different customer groups, has been widely used in online retailing. Although it helps boost the collected revenue for online retailers, it might create…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Xi Chen , Jiameng Lyu , Xuan Zhang , Yuan Zhou