Coalitional games in energy and analytics markets

The main themes of this thesis are the design and analysis of payoff distribution methods for situations where agents collaborate to generate a utility. For modeling such scenarios, we majorly focus on the coalitional game theoretic framework that provides mathematical formalism to study the behavior of rational agents when they cooperate for...

Bilateral Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading via Coalitional Games

In this article, we propose a bilateral peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading scheme under single-contract and multi-contract market setups, both as an assignment game, a special class of coalitional games. The proposed market formulation allows for efficient computation of a market equilibrium while keeping the desired economic properties...

Payoff distribution in robust coalitional games on time-varying networks

In this article, we consider a sequence of transferable utility coalitional games, where the actual coalitional values are unknown but vary within known bounds. As a solution to the resulting family of games, we formalize the notion of 'robust core.' Our main contribution is to design two distributed algorithms, namely 1) distributed payoff...

On the approachability principle for distributed payoff allocation in coalitional games

In the context of coalitional games, we present a partial operator-theoretic characterization of the approachability principle and, based on this characterization, we interpret a particular distributed payoff allocation algorithm to be a sequence of time-varying paracontractions. Then, we also propose a distributed payoff allocation algorithm...