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This paper derives a diffusion approximation for a sequence of discrete-time one-sided limit order book models with non-linear state dependent order arrival and cancellation dynamics. The discrete time sequences are specified in terms of an…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Ulrich Horst , Dörte Kreher

The price of anarchy and price of stability are three well-studied performance metrics that seek to characterize the inefficiency of equilibria in distributed systems. The distinction between these two performance metrics centers on the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Vinod Ramaswamy , Dario Paccagnan , Jason R. Marden

In this work, we study a single-machine scheduling problem that aims at minimizing the total cost of a schedule subject to start-time dependent costs. This framework naturally captures scenarios where costs fluctuate throughout the day,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Sofía Rodríguez-Ballesteros , Javier Alcaraz , Laura Anton-Sanchez , Marc Goerigk , Dorothee Henke

Vickrey's classic single-bottleneck departure time choice equilibrium model exhibits instability under many plausible day-to-day learning dynamics. Such instability is not observed in reality -- does this difference stem from the day-to-day…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hillel Bar-Gera , Stephen D. Boyles , Liron Ravner

In this paper, we consider a dynamic equilibrium transportation problem. There is a fixed number of cars moving from origin to destination areas. Preferences for arrival times are expressed as a cost of arriving before or after the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Victoria Guseva , Ilya Sklonin , Irina Podlipnova , Demyan Yarmoshik , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider "time-of-use" pricing as a technique for matching supply and demand of temporal resources with the goal of maximizing social welfare. Relevant examples include energy, computing resources on a cloud computing platform, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Shuchi Chawla , Nikhil R. Devanur , Alexander E. Holroyd , Anna Karlin , James Martin , Balasubramanian Sivan

We consider the problem of scheduling a queueing system in which many statistically identical servers cater to several classes of impatient customers. Service times and impatience clocks are exponential while arrival processes are renewal.…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rami Atar , Avi Mandelbaum , Martin I. Reiman

As is well known, average-cost optimality inequalities imply the existence of stationary optimal policies for Markov Decision Processes with average costs per unit time, and these inequalities hold under broad natural conditions. This paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Eugene A. Feinberg , Yan Liang

Several works have recently suggested to model the problem of coordinating the charging needs of a fleet of electric vehicles as a game, and have proposed distributed algorithms to coordinate the vehicles towards a Nash equilibrium of such…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Dario Paccagnan , Francesca Parise , John Lygeros

Most of the early input-queued switch research focused on establishing throughput optimality of the max-weight scheduling policy, with some recent research showing that max-weight scheduling is optimal with respect to total expected delay…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Yingdong Lu , Mark S. Squillante , Tonghoon Suk

We introduce the Estimated Dynamic Equilibrium Model (EDEM), an agent-based framework that treats supply and demand as a coupled stochastic process driven by heterogeneous, noisy agent valuations. The model's primary technical contribution…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mikhail L. Arbuzov , Sisong Bei , Alexey Shvets

The price of anarchy (PoA) is a popular metric for analyzing the inefficiency of self-interested decision making. Although its study is widespread, characterizing the PoA can be challenging. A commonly employed approach is based on the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Rahul Chandan , Dario Paccagnan , Jason R. Marden

We study single commodity network flows with suitable robustness and efficiency specs. An original use of a maximum entropy problem for distributions on the paths of the graph turns this problem into a steering problem for Markov chains…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-28 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon , Allen Tannenbaum

At the ultra high frequency level, the notion of price of an asset is very ambiguous. Indeed, many different prices can be defined (last traded price, best bid price, mid price,...). Thus, in practice, market participants face the problem…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2013-04-15 Sylvain Delattre , Christian Y. Robert , Mathieu Rosenbaum

We study a double-ended queue where buyers and sellers arrive to conduct trades. When there is a pair of buyer and seller in the system, they immediately transact a trade and leave. Thus there cannot be non-zero number of buyers and sellers…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-22 Xin Liu , Qi Gong , Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni

Dynamic user equilibrium (DUE) is a Nash-like solution concept describing an equilibrium in dynamic traffic systems over a fixed planning period. DUE is a challenging class of equilibrium problems, connecting network loading models and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Duong Viet Thong , Aviv Gibali , Mathias Staudigl , Phan Tu Vuong

We extend stochastic network optimization theory to treat networks with arbitrary sample paths for arrivals, channels, and mobility. The network can experience unexpected link or node failures, traffic bursts, and topology changes, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-01-07 Michael J. Neely

Stochastic differential equations have proved to be a valuable governing framework for many real-world systems which exhibit ``noise'' or randomness in their evolution. One quality of interest in such systems is the shape of their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-04 David Sabin-Miller , Daniel M. Abrams

In this paper we present a stable day-to-day dynamical system for drivers' departure time choice at a single bottleneck. We first define within-day traffic dynamics with the point queue model, costs, the departure time user equilibrium…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Wen-Long Jin

Executing even moderately large derivatives orders can be expensive and risky; it's hard to balance the uncertainty of working an order over time versus paying a liquidity premium for immediate execution. Here, we introduce the Time Is…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-04-14 Kevin Patrick Darby