Actor-critic provably finds Nash equilibria of linear-quadratic mean-field games

Z Fu, Z Yang, Y Chen, Z Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07498, 2019 - arxiv.org
We study discrete-time mean-field Markov games with infinite numbers of agents where
each agent aims to minimize its ergodic cost. We consider the setting where the agents have …

Transactive energy systems: The market-based coordination of distributed energy resources

S Li, J Lian, AJ Conejo, W Zhang - IEEE Control Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to pressing environmental concerns, there is a global consensus to commit to a
sustainable energy future. Germany has embraced Energiewende, a bold sustainable …

Competition between autonomous and traditional ride-hailing platforms: Market equilibrium and technology transfer

Z Wang, S Li - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2024 - Elsevier
Autonomous ride-hailing platforms, such as Waymo and Cruise, are quickly expanding their
services, but their interactions with the existing ride-hailing companies, such as Uber and …

Privacy-preserving optimal energy management for smart grid with cloud-edge computing

W Fu, Y Wan, J Qin, Y Kang, L Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimal energy management of smart grids requires the information exchange between
devices, which may disclose private information to the adversaries and further lead to great …

Control of dynamic ride-hailing networks with a mixed fleet of autonomous vehicles and for-hire human drivers

D Ao, Z Lai, S Li - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study examines a ride-hailing platform that employs a mixed fleet of autonomous
vehicles (AVs) and human drivers to offer on-demand ride-hailing services across a network …

Regulating for-hire autonomous vehicles for an equitable multimodal transportation network

J Gao, S Li - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper assesses the equity impacts of for-hire autonomous vehicles (AVs) and
investigates regulatory policies that promote spatial and social equity in future autonomous …

Achieving the Social Optimum in a Nonconvex Cooperative Aggregative Game: A Distributed Stochastic Annealing Approach

Y Wang, X Geng, G Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief designs a distributed stochastic annealing algorithm for nonconvex cooperative
aggregative games, whose players' cost functions not only depend on players' own decision …

Linear quadratic mean field social optimization: Asymptotic solvability and decentralized control

M Huang, X Yang - Applied Mathematics & Optimization, 2021 - Springer
This paper studies asymptotic solvability of a linear quadratic mean field social optimization
problem with controlled diffusions and indefinite state and control weights. Starting with an N …

From Nash Equilibrium to Social Optimum and vice versa: a Mean Field Perspective

R Carmona, G Dayanikli, F Delarue… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Mean field games (MFG) and mean field control (MFC) problems have been introduced to
study large populations of strategic players. They correspond respectively to non …

Distributed storage investment in power networks

J Qin, S Li, K Poolla, P Varaiya - 2019 American Control …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The value created by aggregating behind-the-meter distributed energy storage devices for
grid services depends on how much storage is in the system and the power network …