11 papers
Holding the Cold: Retention-Aware Inventory Control for Industrial Refrigeration
Lily Y. Chen, Vade Shah, Dan Walsh +1
Industrial refrigeration consumes substantial electricity, and compressors are the dominant energy consumers in these systems, making their operation central to improving energy ef…
On the Fragility of Efficiency: Uncoupled Learning with a Deviant
Vade Shah, Jason R. Marden
An important question in learning in games is whether players can learn to achieve efficient outcomes, those that maximize the sum of their utilities, without communication or coor…
Forming Alliances in the Fog of War: A General Lotto Perspective
Edik Hakobyan, Vade Shah, Jason R. Marden
Agents competing against a common opponent can often gain an edge by forming alliances, but deciding whether to do so is difficult when they lack precise knowledge about their oppo…
Alliance Mechanisms in General Lotto Games
Vade Shah, Jason R. Marden
How do different alliance mechanisms compare? In this work, we analyze various methods of forming an alliance in the Coalitional General Lotto game, a simple model of competitive r…
Playing with Peaks: A Game-Theoretic Comparison of Electricity Pricing Mechanisms
Vade Shah, Jason R. Marden
As electricity consumption grows, reducing peak demand--the maximum load on the grid--has become critical for preventing infrastructure strain and blackouts. Pricing mechanisms tha…
Cooling Under Convexity: An Inventory Control Perspective on Industrial Refrigeration
Vade Shah, Yohan John, Ethan Freifeld +2
Industrial refrigeration systems have substantial energy needs, but optimizing their operation remains challenging due to the tension between minimizing energy costs and meeting st…
The Price of Simplicity: Analyzing Decoupled Policies for Multi-Location Inventory Control
Yohan John, Vade Shah, James A. Preiss +2
What is the performance cost of using simple, decoupled control policies in inherently coupled systems? Motivated by industrial refrigeration systems, where centralized compressors…
Trial-and-Error Learning in Decentralized Matching Markets
Vade Shah, Bryce L. Ferguson, Jason R. Marden
Two-sided matching markets, environments in which two disjoint groups of agents seek to partner with one another, arise in several contexts. In static, centralized markets where ag…
Inefficient Alliance Formation in Coalitional Blotto Games
Vade Shah, Keith Paarporn, Jason R. Marden
When multiple agents are engaged in a network of conflict, some can advance their competitive positions by forming alliances with each other. However, the costs associated with est…
Learning Optimal Stable Matches in Decentralized Markets with Unknown Preferences
Vade Shah, Bryce L. Ferguson, Jason R. Marden
Matching algorithms have demonstrated great success in several practical applications, but they often require centralized coordination and plentiful information. In many modern onl…
Battlefield Transfers in Coalitional Blotto Games
Vade Shah, Jason R. Marden
In competitive resource allocation environments, agents often choose to form alliances; however, for some agents, doing so may not always be beneficial. Is there a method of formin…