Fair Mechanisms for Smart Grid Congestion Management

We consider energy systems in the built environment. With the transition to a more sustainable, distributed, and 'smart' energy system, such local grids are undergoing significant changes. Among other developments, the new role of end-users as 'prosumers' - users that can either produce or consume power depending on the situation - is turning...

Distributing tasks in committees: An algorithmic research in a cooperative game theory problem

Cooperative game theory studies multi-agent environments where agents are able to make binding agreements. A lot has been written about dividing goods or other positive gains among the agents. This study investigates ways to distribute tasks with a negative utility in a strategyproof way. The intended application is a group of people or...