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SUMMARY:Talk of Prof. Maria Prandini
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Maria Prandini\nDepartment of Elctronics, Information and Bioengineering\nPolitecnico die Milano,Italy\n  \nTuesday 2019-04-16 16:00\nIST-Seminar-Room 2.255 - Pfaffenwaldring 9 - Campus Stuttgart-Vaihingen  \nAbstract\nThe well-functioning of our modern society rests on the reliable and uninterrupted operation of\nlarge scale complex infrastructures, which are more and more exhibiting a network structure with a\nhigh number of interacting components/agents. Energy and transportation systems, communication and\nsocial networks are a few, yet prominent, examples of such large scale multi-agent networked\nsystems. Depending on the specific case, agents may act cooperatively to optimize the overall\nsystem performance or compete for shared resources. Based on the underlying communication\narchitecture and the presence or not of a central regulation authority, either decentralized or\ndistributed decision making paradigms are adopted.\nIn this seminar, we address the interacting and distributed nature of cooperative multi-agent\nsystems arising in the energy  application domain. More specifically, we present our recent\nresults on the development of a unifying distributed optimization framework to cope with the main\ncomplexity features that are prominent in such systems ,i.e.: heterogeneity, as we allow the agents\nto have different objectives and physical/technological constraints; privacy, as we do not require\nagents to disclose their local information; uncertainty, as we take into account uncertainty\naffecting the agents locally and/or globally; and combinatorial complexity, as we address the case\nof discrete decision variables.\n  \nBiographical Information\nMaria Prandini received her laurea degree in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from\nPolitecnico di Milano (1994) and her Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from Università di\nBrescia (1998 In 2002, she became an assistant professor in systems and control at Politecnico di\nMilano, where she is currently a full professor.\nShe has been in the program committees of several international conferences, co-chair of HSCC\n2018, and she has been appointed program chair of IEEE CDC 2021. She serves as an associate editor\nfor IEEE Transactions on Network Systems, and previously for IEEE Transactions on Automatic\nControl, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid\nSystems.  She was editor for the CSS Electronic Publications (2013-15), elected member of the\nIEEE CSS Board of Governors (2015-17), and IEEE CSS Vice-President for Conference Activities\n(2016-17). She is senior member of the IEEE.\nHer research interests include stochastic hybrid systems, randomized algorithms, distributed and\ndata-based optimization, multi-agent systems, and the application of control theory to\ntransportation and energy systems.  \n   \n  \n  \n\n  
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