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One of the most elementary spreading models on graphs can be described by a fire spreading from a burning vertex in discrete time steps. At each step, all neighbors of burning vertices catch fire. A well-studied extension to model fire…

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This paper investigates the problem of adaptive power allocation for distributed best linear unbiased estimation (BLUE) of a random parameter at the fusion center (FC) of a wireless sensor network (WSN). An optimal power-allocation scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mohammad Fanaei , Matthew C. Valenti , Natalia A. Schmid

In this work, we study the problem of energy-efficient computation offloading enabled by edge computing. In the considered scenario, multiple users simultaneously compete for limited radio and edge computing resources to get offloaded tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Mohamed Sana , Mattia Merluzzi , Nicola di Pietro , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Electric grid faults can cause catastrophic wildfires, particularly in regions with high winds and low humidity. In real-time operations, electric utilities are often left with few options for wildfire risk mitigation, leading to use of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Noah Rhodes , Lewis Ntaimo , Line Roald

We consider the problem of assigning tasks efficiently to a set of workers that can exhaust themselves as a result of processing tasks. If a worker is exhausted, it will take a longer time to recover. To model efficiency of workers with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Elif Beray Sariisik , Melih Bastopcu , Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

The dynamic problem of enclosing an expanding fire can be modelled by a discrete variant in a grid graph. While the fire expands to all neighbouring cells in any time step, the fire fighter is allowed to block $c$ cells in the average…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Martin Kretschmer , Elmar Langetepe

Compute-and-forward (CF) is a relaying strategy which allows the relay to decode a linear combination of the transmitted messages. This work studies the optimal power allocation problem for the CF scheme in fast fading channels for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Lanwei Zhang , Jamie Evans , Jingge Zhu

We consider a sensing application where the sensor nodes are wirelessly powered by an energy beacon. We focus on the problem of jointly optimizing the energy allocation of the energy beacon to different sensors and the data transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Ayca Ozcelikkale , Mehmet Koseoglu , Mani Srivastava

In this article, we study the optimization of resource distributions in a one-dimensional logistic diffusive model. The goal is to determine a distribution on a bounded one-dimensional domain that maximizes the total population at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Junyoung Heo , Yubin Lee

Chance-constrained optimization has emerged as a promising framework for managing uncertainties in power systems. This work advances its application to the DC Optimal Power Flow (DC-OPF) model, developing a novel approach to uncertainty…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Tianyang Yi , D. Adrian Maldonado , Anirudh Subramanyam

Inspired by a military context, we study a Stackelberg production game where a country's government, the leader, wants to maximize the production of military assets. The leader does so by allocating his resources among a set of production…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-17 L. Schlicher , M. Musegaas , H. Blok

With the proliferation of distributed generation into distribution networks, the need to consider fault currents in the dispatch problem becomes increasingly relevant. This paper introduces a method for adding fault current constraints into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Jose E. Tabarez , Arthur K. Barnes , Adam Mate , Russell W. Bent

Federated Learning (FL) is an intriguing distributed machine learning approach due to its privacy-preserving characteristics. To balance the trade-off between energy and execution latency, and thus accommodate different demands and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao , Huimei Han , Claude Guet

Motivated by the design question of additional fuel needed to complete a task in an uncertain environment, this paper introduces metrics to quantify the maximal additional energy used by a control system in the presence of bounded…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Ram Padmanabhan , Craig Bakker , Siddharth Abhijit Dinkar , Melkior Ornik

In this paper, we study the optimal dividend problem under the continuous time diffusion model with the bounded dividend rate from the Reinforcement Learning (RL) perspective. Unlike the standard literature, our main focus will be on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Lihua Bai , Thejani Gamage , Jin Ma , Gaozhan Wang

We consider a model of adversarial dynamics consisting of three populations, labelled Blue, Green and Red, which evolve under a system of first order nonlinear differential equations. Red and Blue populations are adversaries and interact…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Mathew Zuparic , Sergiy Shelyag , Maia Angelova , Ye Zhu , Alexander Kalloniatis

With the increasing proportion of renewable energy in the generation side, it becomes more difficult to accurately predict the power generation and adapt to the large deviations between the optimal dispatch scheme and the day-ahead…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Xinyue Wang , Haiwang Zhong , Guanglun Zhang , Guangchun Ruan , Yiliu He , Zekuan Yu

Large scale multiagent systems must rely on distributed decision making, as centralized coordination is either impractical or impossible. Recent works approach this problem under a game theoretic lens, whereby utility functions are assigned…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Rahul Chandan , Dario Paccagnan , Jason R. Marden

In this paper, to optimize the Wireless Charging Lane (WCL) deployment in urban areas, we focus on installation cost reduction while achieving regional balance of energy supply and demand, as well as vehicle continuous operability issues.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Tian Wang , Bo Yang , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

Lanchester's model of combat has certain deficiencies in its standard form arising from the neglect of the influence of random fluctuations. Several approaches to rectify this have been proposed and various results are scattered throughout…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-09 Michael J. Kearney , Richard J. Martin