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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

In this chapter, we are concerned with inverse optimal control problems, i.e., optimization models which are used to identify parameters in optimal control problems from given measurements. Here, we focus on linear-quadratic optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Stephan Dempe , Markus Friedemann , Felix Harder , Patrick Mehlitz , Gerd Wachsmuth

The abundance of process operating data in modern industries, along with the rapid advancement of learning techniques, has led to a paradigm shift towards data-centric analysis and control. However, integrating machine learning with control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Yitao Yan , Yu Tong , Jie Bao , Wei Wang

Control theory deals with the study of controlling dynamical systems. Robots today are growing increasingly complex and moving out of factory floors to real world environment. These robots have to interact with real world environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Iyer Venkataraman Natarajan

This article explains the distinctions between robustness and resilience in control systems. Resilience confronts a distinct set of challenges, posing new ones for designing controllers for feedback systems, networks, and machines that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Quanyan Zhu , Tamer Basar

Many real-world systems are composed of many individual components that interact with one another in a complex pattern to produce diverse behaviors. Understanding how to intervene in these systems to guide behaviors is critically important…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-04 Elena Wu-Yan , Richard F. Betzel , Evelyn Tang , Shi Gu , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett

We devise a control-theoretic reinforcement learning approach to support direct learning of the optimal policy. We establish various theoretical properties of our approach, such as convergence and optimality of our analog of the Bellman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Weiqin Chen , Mark S. Squillante , Chai Wah Wu , Santiago Paternain

We study public goods games played on networks with possibly non-reciprocal relationships between players. Examples for this type of interactions include one-sided relationships, mutual but unequal relationships, and parasitism. It is well…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Péter Bayer , György Kozics , Nóra Gabriella Szőke

Driven by recent successes in two-player, zero-sum game solving and playing, artificial intelligence work on games has increasingly focused on algorithms that produce equilibrium-based strategies. However, this approach has been less…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Dustin Morrill , Ryan D'Orazio , Reca Sarfati , Marc Lanctot , James R. Wright , Amy Greenwald , Michael Bowling

Wireless communication networks are becoming highly virtualized with two-layer hierarchies, in which controllers at the upper layer with tasks to achieve can ask a large number of agents at the lower layer to help realize computation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Zijie Zheng , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , Geoffrey Ye Li , H. Vincent Poor

Game theory has by now found numerous applications in various fields, including economics, industry, jurisprudence, and artificial intelligence, where each player only cares about its own interest in a noncooperative or cooperative manner,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xiuxian Li , Min Meng , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen

Quantum games represent the really 21st century branch of game theory, tightly linked to the modern development of quantum computing and quantum technologies. The main accent in these developments so far was made on stationary or repeated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Vassili Kolokoltsov

We propose a novel reformulation of the stochastic optimal control problem as an approximate inference problem, demonstrating, that such a interpretation leads to new practical methods for the original problem. In particular we characterise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-09-22 Konrad Rawlik , Marc Toussaint , Sethu Vijayakumar

We characterize zonal ancillary market coupling relying on noncooperative game theory. To that purpose, we formulate the ancillary market as a multi-leader single follower bilevel problem, that we subsequently cast as a generalized Nash…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Francesco Morri , Hélène Le Cadre , Pierre Gruet , Luce Brotcorne

The connection between control algorithms for Markov decision processes and optimization algorithms has been implicitly and explicitly exploited since the introduction of dynamic programming algorithm by Bellman in the 1950s. Recently, this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Tolga Ok , Arman Sharifi Kolarijani , Mohamad Amin Sharif Kolarijani , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

This paper presents a succinct review of attempts in the literature to use game theory to model decision making scenarios relevant to defence applications. Game theory has been proven as a very effective tool in modelling decision making…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Edwin Ho , Arvind Rajagopalan , Alex Skvortsov , Sanjeev Arulampalam , Mahendra Piraveenan

Extensive work has been conducted both in game theory and logic to model strategic interaction. An important question is whether we can use these theories to design agents for interacting with people? On the one hand, they provide a formal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Sarit Kraus

Cognitive control researchers aim to describe the processes that support adaptive cognition to achieve specific goals. Control theorists consider how to influence the state of systems to reach certain user-defined goals. In brain networks,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-04 John D. Medaglia

Autonomous driving has been the subject of increased interest in recent years both in industry and in academia. Serious efforts are being pursued to address legal, technical and logistical problems and make autonomous cars a viable option…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Nan Li , Dave Oyler , Mengxuan Zhang , Yildiray Yildiz , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Anouck Girard

Inverse optimal control, also known as inverse reinforcement learning, is the problem of recovering an unknown reward function in a Markov decision process from expert demonstrations of the optimal policy. We introduce a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Sergey Levine , Vladlen Koltun