7 papers
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…
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…