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This paper studies a three party energy management problem in a user interactive smart community that consists of a large number of residential units (RUs) with distributed energy resources (DERs), a shared facility controller (SFC) and the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Wayes Tushar , Bo Chai , Chau Yuen , David B. Smith , H. Vincent Poor

We examine the routing problem for self-interested vehicles using stochastic decision strategies. By approximating the road latency functions and a non-linear variable transformation, we frame the problem as an aggregative game. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-09 Emilio Benenati , Sergio Grammatico

Trajectory guidance requires a leader robotic agent to assist a follower robotic agent to cooperatively reach the target destination. However, planning cooperation becomes difficult when the leader serves a family of different followers and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuhan Zhao , Quanyan Zhu

An existing challenge in power systems is the implementation of optimal demand management through dynamic pricing. This paper encompasses the design, analysis and implementation of a novel on-line pricing scheme based on coalitional game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Fernando Genis Mendoza , Pablo R Baldivieso Monasterios , Dario Bauso , George Konstantopoulos

Recent results in the ML community have revealed that learning algorithms used to compute the optimal strategy for the leader to commit to in a Stackelberg game, are susceptible to manipulation by the follower. Such a learning algorithm…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Georgios Birmpas , Jiarui Gan , Alexandros Hollender , Francisco J. Marmolejo-Cossío , Ninad Rajgopal , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Constrained Markov games offer a formal mathematical framework for modeling multi-agent reinforcement learning problems where the behavior of the agents is subject to constraints. In this work, we focus on the recently introduced class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Philip Jordan , Anas Barakat , Niao He

In this paper, we establish a dynamic game to allocate CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) to the members of a supply chain. We propose a model of a three-tier supply chain in a decentralized state which includes a supplier, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Mehrnoosh Khademi , Massimiliano Ferrara , Mehdi Salimi , Somayeh Sharifi

The search problem of computing a \textit{leader-follower equilibrium} has been widely investigated in the scientific literature in, almost exclusively, the single-follower setting. Although the \textit{optimistic} and \ textit{pessimistic}…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Stefano Coniglio , Nicola Gatti , Alberto Marchesi

In this paper, we propose a hierarchical game approach to model the energy efficiency maximization problem where transmitters individually choose their channel assignment and power control. We conduct a thorough analysis of the existence,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Majed Haddad , Piotr Wiecek , Oussama Habachi , Yezekael Hayel

Motivated by the question of how a principal can maximize its utility in repeated interactions with a learning agent, we study repeated games between an principal and an agent employing a mean-based learning algorithm. Prior work has shown…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Nivasini Ananthakrishnan , Yuval Dagan , Kunhe Yang

Game-theoretic inverse learning is the problem of inferring a player's objectives from their actions. We formulate an inverse learning problem in a Stackelberg game between a leader and a follower, where each player's action is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 William Ward , Yue Yu , Jacob Levy , Negar Mehr , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

We consider a class of hierarchical multi-agent optimization problems over networks where agents seek to compute an approximate solution to a single-stage stochastic mathematical program with equilibrium constraints (MPEC). MPECs subsume…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Mohammadjavad Ebrahimi , Uday V. Shanbhag , Farzad Yousefian

Stackelberg Pricing Games is a two-level combinatorial pricing problem studied in the Economics, Operation Research, and Computer Science communities. In this paper, we consider the decade-old shortest path version of this problem which is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-05 Parinya Chalermsook , Bundit Laekhanukit , Danupon Nanongkai

This paper investigates leader-follower linear-quadratic stochastic graphon games, which consist of a single leader and a continuum of followers. The state equations of the followers interact through graphon coupling terms, with their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Weijia Chen , Jingtao Shi

We study a Stackelberg game to examine how two agents determine to cooperate while competing with each other. Each selects an arrival time to a destination, the earlier one fetching a higher reward. There is, however, an inherent penalty in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chenlan Wang , Mehrdad Moharrami , Mingyan Liu

Stackelberg prediction games (SPGs) model strategic data manipulation in adversarial learning via a leader--follower interaction between a learner and a self-interested data provider, leading to challenging bilevel optimization problems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Tong Wei , Yangjie Xu , Xinlin Wang , Pin-Han Ho , Bhavani Shankar M. R. , Radu State , Björn Ottersten

This paper proposes a new method for finding closed-loop saddle points in zero-sum linear-quadratic stochastic differential games by decoupling their inherent structure. Specifically, we develop a nested iterative scheme that constructs a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Yiyuan Wang

We consider the multi-agent spatial navigation problem of computing the socially optimal order of play, i.e., the sequence in which the agents commit to their decisions, and its associated equilibrium in an N-player Stackelberg trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Haimin Hu , Gabriele Dragotto , Zixu Zhang , Kaiqu Liang , Bartolomeo Stellato , Jaime F. Fisac

Bundle adjustment is the common way to solve localization and mapping. It is an iterative process in which a system of non-linear equations is solved using two optimization methods, weighted by a damping factor. In the classic approach, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Amir Belder , Refael Vivanti , Ayellet Tal

This paper obtains the maximum principle for both stochastic (global) open-loop and stochastic (global) closed-loop Stackelberg differential games. For the closed-loop case, we use the theory of controlled forward-backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Alain Bensoussan , Shaokuan Chen , Suresh P. Sethi