W propose a two-stage game-theoretic approach to study the operations of an airline alliance in which independent carriers, managing different reservation and information systems, can collaboratively market and operate codeshare and interline itineraries. In the first-stage game, airlines negotiate fixed proration rates to share the revenues generated by such itineraries. In the second-stage ga...

This paper considers the problem of achieving stability and certain ∞ H performances for a largescale system by a decentralised control feedback law. The performance problem is formulated as a standard weighted mixed sensitivity ∞ H problem. Then, to solve the proposed problem a modification of the original weighting functions is presented. Some sufficient conditions are introduced to ensure th...

Abstract We consider a large number of agents collaborating on multi-armed bandit problem with arms. The goal is to minimise the regret each agent in communication-constrained setting. present decentralised algorithm which builds upon and improves Gossip-Insert-Eliminate method Chawla et al. (International conference artificial intelligence statistics, pp 3471–3481, 2020). provide theoretical a...

In modern power systems, the proliferation of electronics converters, and distributed generation raises important issues concerning inter-connected switching units in terms performance, stability robustness. Such phenomenon are more prominent micro-grids, such as local low voltage distribution electric aircraft systems etc., where many converters connected to same non-stiff ac grid, strongly in...

Robot swarms are collections of simple robots cooperating without centralized control. Control algorithms for swarms are often inspired by decentralised problem-solving systems found in nature. In this paper we conduct a formal analysis of an algorithm inspired by the foraging behaviour of ants, where a swarm of flying vehicles searches for a target at some unknown location. We show how both ex...

This paper investigates how to make decentralised networks, amenable to external control, i.e., how to ensure that they are appropriately organised so that they can be effectively ‘reprogrammed’. In particular, we study networked systems whose interaction dynamics are given by a nearest-neighbour averaging rule, with one leader node providing the control input to the entire system. The main res...