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The paradigm shift in the electric power grid necessitates a revisit of existing control methods to ensure the grid's security and resilience. In particular, the increased uncertainties and rapidly changing operational conditions in power…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Thanh Long Vu , Sayak Mukherjee , Tim Yin , Renke Huang , and Jie Tan , Qiuhua Huang

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has recently witnessed significant advances that have led to multiple successes in solving sequential decision-making problems in various domains, particularly in wireless communications. The future…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Amal Feriani , Ekram Hossain

Power grids heavily rely on Automatic Generation Control (AGC) systems to maintain grid stability by balancing generation and demand. However, the increasing digitization and interconnection of power grid infrastructure expose AGC systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Vasileios Dimitropoulos , Andreas D. Syrmakesis , Nikos Hatziargyriou

This paper introduces a novel, open-source MARL simulation framework for studying implicit cooperation in LEMs, modeled as a decentralized partially observable Markov decision process and implemented as a Gymnasium environment for MARL. Our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Nelson Salazar-Pena , Alejandra Tabares , Andres Gonzalez-Mancera

Aiming for the median solution between cyber-intensive optimal power flow (OPF) solutions and subpar local control, this work advocates deciding inverter injection setpoints using deep neural networks (DNNs). Instead of fitting OPF…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Sarthak Gupta , Vassilis Kekatos , Ming Jin

An important challenge for smart grid security is designing a secure and robust smart grid communications architecture to protect against cyber-threats, such as Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, that can adversely impact the operation of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dennis Agnew , Sharon Boamah , Reynold Mathieu , Austin Cooper , Janise McNair , Arturo Bretas

High-quality Service Function Chaining (SFC) provisioning is provided by the timely execution of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in a defined sequence. Advanced Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) solutions are utilized in many studies to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Murat Arda Onsu , Poonam Lohan , Burak Kantarci , Emil Janulewicz

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising data-driven approach for adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) in complex urban traffic networks, and deep neural networks further enhance its learning power. However, centralized RL is infeasible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Tianshu Chu , Jie Wang , Lara Codecà , Zhaojian Li

Inventory control in modern supply chains has attracted significant attention due to the increasing number of disruptive shocks and the challenges posed by complex dynamics, uncertainties, and limited collaboration. Traditional methods,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Niki Kotecha , Antonio del Rio Chanona

In edge computing systems, autonomous agents must make fast local decisions while competing for shared resources. Existing MARL methods often resume to centralized critics or frequent communication, which fail under limited observability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Andrea Fox , Francesco De Pellegrini , Eitan Altman

In heterogeneous networks (HetNets), the overlap of small cells and the macro cell causes severe cross-tier interference. Although there exist some approaches to address this problem, they usually require global channel state information,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Kaidi Xu , Nguyen Van Huynh , Geoffrey Ye Li

Aiming at the local overload of multi-controller deployment in software-defined networks, a load balancing mechanism of SDN controller based on reinforcement learning is designed. The initial paired migrate-out domain and migrate-in domain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Zhuo Li , Xu Zhou , Junruo Gao , Yifang Qin

Deep Reinforcement Learning has made significant progress in multi-agent systems in recent years. In this review article, we have focused on presenting recent approaches on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Afshin OroojlooyJadid , Davood Hajinezhad

Deep reinforcement learning offers a model-free alternative to supervised deep learning and classical optimization for solving the transmit power control problem in wireless networks. The multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approach…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Yasar Sinan Nasir , Dongning Guo

The Network Slicing (NS) paradigm enables the partition of physical and virtual resources among multiple logical networks, possibly managed by different tenants. In such a scenario, network resources need to be dynamically allocated…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Federico Mason , Gianfranco Nencioni , Andrea Zanella

In this paper, we address the problem of coordinating a set of distributed energy resources (DERs) to regulate voltage in power distribution systems to desired levels. To this end, we formulate the voltage control problem as an optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Hanchen Xu , Alejandro D. Domínguez-García , Peter W. Sauer

Accurate knowledge of the distribution system topology and parameters is required to achieve good voltage controls, but this is difficult to obtain in practice. This paper develops a model-free approach based on the surrogate model and deep…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Di Cao , Junbo Zhao , Weihao Hu , Fei Ding , Qi Huang , Zhe Chen , Frede Blaabjerg

Owing to large industrial energy consumption, industrial production has brought a huge burden to the grid in terms of renewable energy access and power supply. Due to the coupling of multiple energy sources and the uncertainty of renewable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Dafeng Zhu , Bo Yang , Yuxiang Liu , Zhaojian Wang , Kai Ma , Xinping Guan

The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a complex, interdependent framework where progress in one area can synergistically promote or competitively inhibit progress in others. For policymakers in international…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-27 Wuyang Zhang , Lejun Xu

Decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms have become popular in the literature since it allows heterogeneous agents to have their own reward functions as opposed to canonical multi-agent Markov Decision Process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Soumajyoti Sarkar