The 2nd Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems (SCONES)

The 2^nd Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems (SCONES) will be held on Monday, October 16 and Tuesday, October 17, 2017, at the Photonics Center, Room 906, on the campus of Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

SCONES is associated with the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS), a publication sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society and technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, the IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Its purpose is to help coalesce and broaden the scientific community working on questions relating to networks and control, either mathematical and/or of interest to a variety of application domains. SCONES 2017 is the second such symposium; information on the first can be found here.

SCONES 2017 will feature invited talks from research leaders and a contributed poster session. Themes of emphasis this year include: game theory, optimization, power networks, multi-agent and robotic networks, social networks, transportation networks, and biological networks.

The SCONES 2017 Chairs
Yannis Paschalidis, TCNS Editor-in-Chief, and
Jeff Shamma, TCNS Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Agenda Day 1

8:45 - 9:15AM - Breakfast
9:15 - 9:30AM - Welcome

Session 1 - Game Theory and Distributed Optimization - Jeff Shamma (Chair & Organizer)
9:30 - 10:00AM - Learning Nash Equilibria in Convex Games - Maryam Kamgarpour (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
10:00 - 1030AM - Common Knowledge and Games of Asymmetric Information - Ashutosh Nayyar (University of Southern California)
10:30 - 11:00AM - On Strategic Information Transmission and Deception Games - Cedric Langbort (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
11:00 - 11:30 AM - Behavioral Game Theory for Cyber-Physical Systems Optimization - Walid Saad (Virginia Tech)
11:30 - 1:00PM - Lunch and Poster Session

Session 2: Power Networks - Steven Low (Chair & Organizer)
1:00PM    1:30PM    Approximations of Variational Problems in Power Systems Operations - Anna Scaglione (Arizona State University)
1:30PM    2:00PM    On the Dynamics of Solar Adoption: Equilibrium, Stability, and Limiting Capacity - Lang Tong (Cornell University)
2:30PM    3:00PM    Some Optimization Problems in Smart Grids - Steven Low (California Institute of Technology)
3:00PM    3:20PM    Break and Poster Session

Session 3: Multi-Agent and Robotic Networks - Sonia Martinez (Chair & Organizer)
3:20PM    3:50PM    Distributed Cooperative Decision-Making in Multi-Armed Bandits - Naomi Leonard (Princeton University)
3:50PM    4:20PM    Resilient Distributed Formal Synthesis - Calin Belta (Boston University)
4:20PM    4:50PM    Decision-Theoretic Approaches for Decentralized Asynchronous Multiagent Coordination in Non-Stationary Environments - Jonathan How (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4:50PM    5:20PM    Decentralized Cooperative Localization Algorithms for a Team of Communicating Mobile Robots - Solmaz Kia (University of California Irvine)
5:20PM    6:20PM    Reception: Photonics 9th floor
6:20PM    8:00PM    Dinner

Agenda Day 2

9:00AM    9:30AM    Breakfast

Session 4: Biological Networks - Ioannis Paschalidis (Chair & Organizer)
9:30AM    10:00AM   "Power Network” of Genetic Circuits: Hidden Interactions and Their Mitigation Through Decentralized Feedback Control - Domitilla Del Vecchio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:00AM    10:30AM    From Genetic Traits to Edgetic Traits - Marc Vidal (Harvard University)
10:30AM    11:00AM    Observing and Controlling the States of Nonlinear Biological Networks    Adilson Motter, Northwestern University
11:00AM    11:30AM    Global Mapping of Protein Interaction Networks    Andrew Emili, Boston University
11:30AM    1:00PM    Lunch and Poster Session

Session 5: Social Networks and Transportation Networks - Fabio Fagnani and Giacomo Como (Chair & Organizers)
1:00PM    1:30PM    Network Games: Information, Consensus, and Control - Ben Golub (Harvard University)
1:30PM    2:00PM    Aggregate Reward Programs - Amir Ajorlou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2:00PM    2:30PM    Analysis and Control of Traffic Flow on Signalized Arterial Networks - Ketan Savla (University of Southern California)
2:30PM    3:00PM    On Distributed Control of Flow Networks via Generalized Proportional Allocation - Giacomo Como (Politecnico di Torino and Lund University)
3:00PM    3:10PM    Closing Remarks