Distributed control for radial loss network systems via the Nash Certainty Equivalence (mean field) principle

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3829-3834

  Ma, Zhongjing ^a   Malhamé, Roland P ^b   Caines, Peter E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; MEAN FIELD THEORY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CERTAINTY EQUIVALENCE; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED DYNAMICS; DISTRIBUTED GAMES; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; LARGE POPULATION; MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION; MEAN FIELD MODELS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 62949192884     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2008.4739237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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