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Distributed optimization algorithms are used in a wide variety of problems involving complex network systems where the goal is for a set of agents in the network to solve a network-wide optimization problem via distributed update rules. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Liam Hallinan , Ioannis Lestas

Designing systems for autonomous transport of groups of living agents has received a lot of attention in recent years due to a wealth of important potential applications. Biomimetic approaches are often sought, and a range of herding…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-20 Daniel Strömbom , Julianna Hoitt , Cameron Cloud

In several social choice problems, agents collectively make decisions over the allocation of multiple divisible and heterogeneous resources with capacity constraints to maximize utilitarian social welfare. The agents are constrained through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Syed Eqbal Alam , Fabian Wirth , Jia Yuan Yu , Robert Shorten

The electric power distribution network (PDN) and the transportation network (TN) are generally operated/coordinated by different entities. However, they are coupled with each other due to electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs). This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Santosh Sharma , Qifeng Li

In decentralized optimization, nodes cooperate to minimize an overall objective function that is the sum (or average) of per-node private objective functions. Algorithms interleave local computations with communication among all or a subset…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Michael G. Rabbat

Network topology has significant impacts on operational performance of power systems. While extensive research efforts have been devoted to optimization of network topology for improving various system performances, the problem of how to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Tong Han , David J. Hill , Yue Song

Motivated by the applications, a class of optimal control problems is investigated, where the goal is to influence the behavior of a given population through another controlled one interacting with the first. Diffusive terms accounting for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

We study probabilistic protocols for concurrent threshold-based load balancing in networks. There are n resources or machines represented by nodes in an undirected graph and m >> n users that try to find an acceptable resource by moving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Martin Hoefer , Thomas Sauerwald

Probabilistic message-passing algorithms are developed for routing transmissions in multi-wavelength optical communication networks, under node and edge-disjoint routing constraints and for various objective functions. Global routing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-25 Yi-Zhi Xu , Ho Fai Po , Chi Ho Yeung , David Saad

Clustering is a very popular network structuring technique which mainly addresses the issue of scalability in large scale Wireless Sensor Networks. Additionally, it has been shown to improve the energy efficiency and prolong the life of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-09-10 Khalid Nawaz , Alejandro P. Buchmann

Optimal transport has numerous applications, particularly in machine learning tasks involving generative models. In practice, the transportation process often encounters an information bottleneck, typically arising from the conversion of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiqiang Qu , Ruibin Li , Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Xinbing Wang

The proliferation of networked devices, systems, and applications that we depend on every day makes managing networks more important than ever. The increasing security, availability, and performance demands of these applications suggest…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Nick Feamster , Jennifer Rexford

Network optimization has generally been focused on solving network flow problems, but recently there have been investigations into optimizing network characteristics. Optimizing network connectivity to maximize the number of nodes within a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-03 Jeremy Auerbach , Hyun Kim

The realization of efficient micro-machines built from active matter requires precise thermodynamic control far from equilibrium. Despite theoretical progress, the focus on single-parameter driving, coupled with strict theoretical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-18 Luke K. Davis

Designing a city-wide public transport network poses a dual challenge: achieving computational efficiency while ensuring spatial equity for different population groups. We investigate whether AI-based optimization hybrid neuroevolutionary…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-18 Aleksandr Morozov , Ruslan Kozliak , Georgii Kontsevik , Sergey Mityagin

In this Letter we propose a method to control a set of arbitrary nodes in a directed network such that they follow a synchronous trajectory which is, in general, not shared by the other units of the network. The problem is inspired to those…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-19 Bruno Ursino , Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Vito Latora , Mattia Frasca

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm for consensus optimization over networks and a robust extension tailored to deal with asynchronous agents and packet losses. Indeed, to robustly achieve dynamic consensus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Bastianello , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ruggero Carli

Though appropriate for core Internet infrastructure, the Internet Protocol is unsuited to routing within and between emerging ad-hoc edge networks due to its dependence on hierarchical, administratively assigned addresses. Existing ad-hoc…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bryan Ford

This paper studies a constrained optimization problem over networked systems with an undirected and connected communication topology. The algorithm proposed in this work utilizes singular perturbation, dynamic average consensus, and saddle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Phuong Huu Hoang , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Achieving a balance of supply and demand in a multi-agent system with many individual self-interested and rational agents that act as suppliers and consumers is a natural problem in a variety of real-life domains---smart power grids, data…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Kamal Chaturvedi , Jia Yuan Yu , Shrisha Rao