4 papers
A Game-Theoretic Approach to a Task Delegation Problem
Donya G. Dobakhshari, Lav R. Varshney, Vijay Gupta
We study a setting in which a principal selects an agent to execute a collection of tasks according to a specified priority sequence. Agents, however, have their own individual pri…
Optimal Contract Design for Incentive-Based Demand Response
Donya G. Dobakhshari, Vijay Gupta
We design an optimal contract between a demand response aggregator (DRA) and a customer for incentive-based demand response. We consider a setting in which the customer is asked to…
A Contract Design Approach for Phantom Demand Response
Donya Ghavidel Dobakhshari, Vijay Gupta
We design an optimal contract between a demand response aggregator (DRA) and power grid customers for incentive-based demand response. We consider a setting in which the customers…
A Reputation-Based Contract for Repeated Crowdsensing with Costly Verification
Donya G. Dobakhshari, Parinaz Naghizadeh, Mingyan Liu +1
We study a setup in which a system operator hires a sensor to exert costly effort to collect accurate measurements of a value of interest over time. At each time, the sensor is ask…