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V. Shah, B.L. Ferguson, and J.R. Marden, "Learning Optimal Stable Matches in Decentralized Markets with Unknown Preferences,'' IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2024 (to appear).

B.L. Ferguson, D. Paccagnan, B. Pradelski, and J.R. Marden "Bridging the Gap Between Central and Local Decision-Making: The Efficacy of Collaborative Equilibria in Altruistic Congestion Games,'' IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2024 (to appear).

R. Konda, V. Chandan, J. Crossno, B. Pollard, D. Walsh, R. Bohonek, and J.R. Marden, “Utilizing Load Shifting for Optimal Compressor Sequencing in Industrial Refrigeration,'” American Control Conference, 2024.

A. Aghajan, K. Paarporn, and, J.R. Marden, “Extension Theorems for General Lotto Games With Applications to Network Security,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 185-196, 2024.

B.L. Ferguson, P.N. Brown, and J.R. Marden, “Information Signalling with Concurrent Monetary Incentives in Bayesian Congestion Games,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Volume 25, Issue 7, Pages 8028-8041, 2024.

T. Iwase, D. Paccagnan, A. Beynier, N. Bredeche, N. Maudet, and J.R. Marden, “Is Limited Information Enough? An Approximate Multi-agent Coverage Control in Non-Convex Discrete Environments,” 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2024. [25% Acceptance Rate]

V. Shah and J.R. Marden, “Battlefield transfers in coalitional Blotto games,” 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2024.

R. Chandan, D. Paccagnan, and J.R. Marden, "The Anarchy-Stability Tradeoff in Congestion Games,'' 2024 (under review).

K. Paarporn, R.Chandan, M. Alizadeh, and J.R. Marden, ``Incomplete and asymmetric information in General Lotto games,'' 2024 (under review).

R. Chandan, D. Paccagnan, and J.R. Marden, “Methodologies for Quantifying and Optimizing the Price of Anarchy,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024 (to appear).

R. Konda, R. Chandan, D. Grimsman, and J.R. Marden, “Optimal Design of Best Response Dynamics in Resource Allocation Games,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024 (to appear).

K. Paarporn, R. Chandan, D. Kovenock, M. Alizadeh, and J.R. Marden, “Strategically Revealing Intentions in General Lotto Games,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024 (to appear).

B.L. Ferguson and J.R. Marden, “Robust Utility Design in Distributed Resource Allocation Problems with Defective Agents,” Dynamic Games and Applications, Volume 13, Pages 208-230, 2023.

P.N. Brown, J. Seaston, and J.R. Marden, “Robust Networked Multiagent Optimization: Designing Agents to Repair Their Own Utility Functions,” Dynamic Games and Applications, Volume 13, Pages 187-207, 2023.

B.L. Ferguson, P.N. Brown, and J.R. Marden, “Value of Information in Incentive Design: A Case Study in Simple Congestion Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages 3077-3088, 2023.

D. Grimsman, M. Kirchner, J.P. Hespanha, and J.R. Marden, “The Impact of Measurement Passing in Sensor Network Measurement Selection” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 112-123, 2023.

B.L. Ferguson, D. Paccagnan, and J.R. Marden, “The Cost of Informing Decision-Makers in Multi-Agent Maximum Coverage Problems with Random Resource Value,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, Volume 7, Pages 2928-2933, 2023.

G. Diaz-Garcia, F. Bullo, and J.R. Marden, “Distributed Markov Chain-based Strategies for Multi-Agent Robotic Surveillance,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, Volume 7, Pages 2527-2532, 2023.

B.L. Ferguson, D. Paccagnan, B.S.Pradelski, and J.R. Marden, “Collaborative Coalitions in Multi-Agent Systems: Quantifying the Strong Price of Anarchy for Resource Allocation Games,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2023.

R. Konda, R. Chandan, and J.R. Marden, “Quality of Non-Convergent Best Response Processes in Multi-Agent Systems through Sink Equilibrium,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2023.

G. Diaz-Garcia, F. Bullo, and J.R. Marden, “Beyond the 'Enemy-of-my-Enemy' Alliances: Coalitions in Networked Contest Games,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2023.

R. Zhang, Y. Zhang, R. Konda, B.L. Ferguson, J.R. Marden, and N. Li, “Markov Games with Decoupled Dynamics: Price of Anarchy and Sample Complexity,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2023.

R. Chandan, K. Paarporn, D. Kovenock, M. Alizadeh, and J.R. Marden, “The Art of Concession in General Lotto Games,” International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets), 2023.

A. Aghajan, K. Paarporn, and J. R. Marden, “Equilibrium characterizations of asymmetric Majoritarian contests,” IFAC-PapersOnLine (IFAC World Congress), Volume 56, Issue 2, Pages 2811-2816, 2023.

A. Aghajan, K. Paarporn, and J. R. Marden, “Equilibrium characterizations of multi-resource Lotto games,” IFAC-PapersOnLine (IFAC World Congress), Volume 56, Issue 2, Pages 2805-2810, 2023.

A. Chen, B.L. Ferguson, D. Shishika, M. Dorothy, J.R. Marden, G.J. Pappas, and V. Kumar, “Path Defense in Dynamic Defender-Attacker Blotto Games (dDAB) with Limited Information,” American Control Conference, 2023.

A. Aghajan, K. Paarporn, and J.R. Marden, “A Weakest-link Extension Theorem for General Lotto Games,” American Control Conference, 2023.

K. Paarporn, R. Chandan, D. Kovenock, M. Alizadeh, and J.R. Marden, "Analyzing pre-commitment strategies in General Lotto games,'' American Control Conference," 2023.

Y. Chen, D.E. Ochoa, J.R. Marden, and J.I. Poveda, “High-Order Decentralized Pricing Dynamics for Congestion Games: Harnessing Coordination to Achieve Acceleration,'' American Control Conference, 2023.

M. Kirchner, D. Grimsman, J. Hespanha, and J.R. Marden, “Trajectories for the Optimal Collection of Information,” IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2023.

D. Paccagnan, R. Chandan, and J.R. Marden , “Utility and Mechanism Design in Multiagent Systems: an Overview,” Annual Reviews in Control, Volume 53, Pages 315-328, 2022.

V. Ramaswamy, D. Paccagnan, and J.R. Marden, “Multiagent Maximum Coverage Problems: The Tradeoff Between Anarchy and Stability,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 67, Issue 4, Pages 1698-1712, 2022.

R. Yan, X. Duan, Z. Shi, Y. Zhong, J.R. Marden, and F. Bullo , “Policy Evaluation and Seeking for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning based on Strict Best Response Dynamics,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 67, Issue 4, Pages 1898-1913, 2022.

B.L. Ferguson, P.N. Brown, and J.R. Marden , “The Effectiveness of Subsidies and Tolls in Congestion Games,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 67, Issue 6, Pages 2729-2742, 2022.

S. Wang, L. Diang, and J.R. Marden, “Learning in Potential Games for Electric Power Grids: Models, Dynamics, and Outlook,” IEEE Systems Journal, Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 5079-5091, 2022.

K. Paarporn, R. Chandan, M. Alizadeh, J.R. Marden, “Asymmetric battlefield uncertainty in General Lotto games,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, Volume 6, Pages 2822-2827, 2022.

D. Paccagnan and J.R. Marden, "Utility Design for Distributed Resource Allocation—Part II: Applications to Submodular, Covering, and Supermodular Problems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 67, Issue 2, Pages 618-632, 2022.

B.L. Ferguson, P.N. Brown, and J.R. Marden , “Avoiding Unintended Consequences: How Incentives Aid Information Provisioning in Bayesian Congestion Games,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2022.

R. Chandan, K Paarporn, M. Alizadeh, and J.R. Marden, “Strategic investmets in multi-stage General Lotto games,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2022.

A. Aghajan, K Paarporn, and J.R. Marden, “A General Lotto Game over Networked Target,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2022. ()

D. Grimsman, P.N. Brown, and J.R. Marden , “Valid Utility Games with Information Sharing Constraints,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2022.

B. Ferguson, D. Shishika, and J.R. Marden, “Ensuring the Defense of Paths and Perimeters in Dynamic Defender-Attacker Blotto Games (dDAB) on Graphs,” Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2022.

A. Aghajan, K Paarporn, and J.R. Marden, “Managing Resources in Multi-resource General Lotto Games,” Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2022.

R. Konda, R. Chandan, D. Grimsman, and J.R. Marden, “Balancing Asymptotic and Transient Efficiency Guarantees in Set Covering Games,” American Control Conference, 2022.

K. Paarporn, R. Chandan, M. Alizadeh, and J.R. Marden, “The importance of randomization in resource assignment problems,” American Control Conference, 2022.

R. Konda, D. Grimsman, and J.R. Marden, “Execution Order Matters in Greedy Algorithms with Limited Information,” American Control Conference, 2022.

R. Chandan, D. Paccagnan, and J.R. Marden, “The Tension Between Anarchy and Stability in Congestion Games,” American Control Conference, 2022.

D. Paccagnan, R. Chandan, B.L. Ferguson, and J.R. Marden, “Optimal Taxes in Atomic congestion games,” ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TAEC), Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 1-33, 2021.

B.L. Ferguson, P.N. Brown, and J.R. Marden, “The Effectiveness of Subsidies and Tolls in Atomic Congestion Games,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, Pages 614-619, 2021.

K. Paarporn, B. Canty, P.N. Brown, M. Alizadeh, and J.R. Marden, "The impact of complex and informed adversarial behavior in graphical coordination games," IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems, Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 200-211, 2021.

K. Paarporn, M. Alizadeh and J.R. Marden, "A risk-security tradeoff in graphical coordination games," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 66, Issue 5, Pages 1973-1985, 2021.

Y. Yue, B.L. Ferguson, and J.R. Marden, “Incentive Design for Congestion Games with Unincentivizable Users,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021.

K. Paarporn, R. Chandan, M. Alizadeh, and J.R. Marden, “The Division of Assets in Multiagent Systems: A Case Study in Team Blotto Games,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021.

B.L. Ferguson and J.R. Marden, “Robust Utility Design in Distributed Resource Allocation Problems with Defective Agents,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021.

R. Konda, R. Chandan, and J.R. Marden , “Mission Level Uncertainty in Multi-Agent Resource Allocation,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021.

R. Chandan, K. Paarporn, and J.R. Marden. "When showing your hand pays off: Announcing strategic intentions in Colonel Blotto games,''  American Control Conference, 2021.

B.L. Ferguson and J.R. Marden, "The Impact of Fairness on Performance in Congestion Networks,'' American Control Conference, 2021.       

R. Chandan, D. Paccagnan, and J.R. Marden. "Tractable mechanisms for computing near-optimal utility functions,'' 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2021.     

P.N. Brown and J R. Marden, "Can Taxes Improve Congestion on all Networks?", IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems, Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 1643-1653, 2020.

D. Paccagnan, R. Chandan, J.R. Marden, "Utility Design for Distributed Resource Allocation—Part I: Characterizing and Optimizing the Exact Price of Anarchy," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 65, Issue 11, Pages 4616-4631, 2020.

D. Grimsman, J. Seaton, J.R. Marden, and P.N. Brown, "The Cost of Denied Observation in Multiagent Submodular Optimization,'' IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2020.

D. Grimsman, M. Kirchner, J.P. Hespanha, and J.R. Marden, "The Impact of Message Passing in Agent-Based Submodular Maximization,'' IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2020.

R. Chandan, K. Paarporn, and J.R. Marden. "When showing your hand pays off: Announcing strategic intentions in Colonel Blotto games,''  American Control Conference, 2020.

B.L. Ferguson, P.N. Brown, and J.R. Marden. "Carrots or Sticks? The Effectiveness of Subsidies and Tolls in Congestion Games,''  American Control Conference, 2020. [Best Student Paper Finalist]

H. Sun, D. Grimsman, and J.R. Marden, "Distributed Submodular Maximization with Parallel Execution,'' American Control Conference, 2020.

D. Grimsman, J.P. Hespanha, and J.R. Marden, "Stackelberg Equilibria for Two-Player Network Routing Games on Parallel Networks,'' American Control Conference, 2020.

D. Grimsman, M.S. Ali, J.P. Hespanha, and J.R. Marden, "The Impact of Information in Distributed Submodular Maximization," IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems, Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 1334-1343, 2019.

D. Paccagnan and J.R. Marden, "The Importance of System-Level Information in Multiagent Systems Design: Cardinality and Covering Problems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 64, Issue 8, Pages 3253-3267, 2019.

P.N. Brown, H. Borowski and J.R. Marden, "Security Against Impersonation Attacks in Distributed Systems," IEEE Transactions of Networked Control Systems, Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 440-450, 2019.

H. Borowski, J.R. Marden, and J.S. Shamma, "Learning Efficient Correlated Equilibrium," Dynamic Games and Applications, Volume 9, Pages 24-46, 2019.

R. Chandan, D. Paccagnan and J.R. Marden, "When Smoothness is Not Enough: Toward Exact Quantification and Optimization of the Price-of-Anarchy," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019.

B.L. Ferguson, P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "Utilizing Information Optimally to Influence Distributed Network Routing," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019.

K. Paarporn, R. Chandan, M. Alizadeh and J.R. Marden, "Characterizing the interplay between information and strength in Blotto games," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019.

K. Paarporn, M. Alizadeh and J.R. Marden, "Risk and security tradeoffs in graphical coordination games," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019.

R. Chandan, D. Paccagnan, B.L. Ferguson, and J.R. Marden, "Computing Optimal Taxes in Atomic Congestion Games," 14th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation (NetEcon), 2019.

V. Ramaswamy, D. Paccagnan, and J.R. Marden, "Multiagent Maximum Coverage Problems: The Trade-Off between Anarchy and Stability," European Control Conference, 2019.

P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "On the Feasibility of Local Utility Redesign for Multiagent Optimization," European Control Conference, 2019.

R. Chandan, D. Paccagnan, and J.R. Marden, "Optimal Price of Anarchy in Cost-Sharing Games," American Control Conference, 2019.

J.R. Marden and J.S. Shamma, "Game Theory and Control," Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, Volume 1, 2018.

M. Phillips and J.R. Marden, "Design Tradeoffs in Concave Cost-Sharing Games," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 63, Issue 7, Pages 2242-2247, 2018.

P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "Optimal Mechanisms for Robust Coordination in Congestion Games," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 63, Issue 8, Pages 2437-2448, 2018.

P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "Projecting Network Games Onto Spare Graphs," Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2018.

D. Grimsman, J.R. Marden, J.P. Hespanha, "Strategic Information Sharing in Greedy Submodular Maximization," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2018.

B. Canty, P.N. Brown, M. Alizadeh, and J.R. Marden, "The Impact of Informed Adversarial Behavior in Graphical Coordination Games," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2018.

E. Jensen and J.R. Marden, "Optimal Utility Design in Convex Distributed Welfare Games," American Control Conference, 2018.

D. Paccagnan and J.R. Marden, "The risks and rewards of conditioning noncooperative designs to additional information," Allerton Conference, 2018.

J.R. Marden and J.S. Shamma, "Game Theoretic Learning in Distributed Control," Handbook of Dynamic Game Theory, Pages 1-36, 2017.

P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "Studies on Robust Social Influence Mechanisms, Incentives for Efficient Network Routing in Uncertain Settings," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 98-115, 2017.

J.R. Marden, "Selecting Efficient Correlated Equilibria Through Distributed Learning," Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 106, Pages 114-133, 2017.

P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "The Robustness of Marginal-Cost Taxes in Affine Congestion Games," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 62, Issue 8, Pages 3999-4004, 2017.

J.R. Marden, "The Role of Information in Distributed Resource Allocation," IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems, Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 654-664, 2017.

H. Borowski and J.R. Marden, "Fast Convergence in Semianonymous Potential Games," IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems, Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 246-258, 2017.

P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "Studies on Mechanisms for Robust Social Influence," IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2017.

P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "The Benefit of Perversity in Taxation Mechanisms for Distributed Routing," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2017.

D. Grimsman, M.S. Ali, J.P. Hespanha, and J.R. Marden, "Impact of Information in Greedy Submodular Maximization," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2017.

J.I. Poveda, P.N. Brown, J.R. Marden, and A. Teel, "A Class of Distributed Adaptive Pricing Mechanisms for Societal Systems with Limited Information," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2017.

[Best Student Paper Finalist]

C. Possieri and J.R. Marden, "Population Games on 2-simplex: existence and efficiency of Nash equilibria," 20th IFAC World Congress, 2017.

P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "Fundamental Limits of Locally-Computed Incentives in Network Routing," American Control Conference, 2017.

J.R. Marden and M. Philips, "Optimizing the Price of Anarchy in Concave Cost Sharing Games," American Control Conference, 2017.

P. Gebraad, F. W. Teeuwisse, J.W. van Wingerden, P.A. Fleming, S.D. Ruben, J.R. Marden, L.Y. Pao, "Wind plant power optimization through yaw control using a parametric model for wake effects -- a CFD simulation study," Wind Energy, Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 95-114, 2016.

P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "Avoiding Perverse Incentives in Affine Congestion Games," Conference on Decision and Control, 2016.

[Best Student Paper Finalist]

M. Philips, Y. Shalaby, and J.R. Marden, "The Importance of Budget in Efficient Utility Design," Conference on Decision and Control, 2016.

P. Brown and J.R. Marden, "A Study on Price Discrimination for Robust Social Coordination," American Control Conference, 2016.

V. Ramaswamy and J.R. Marden, "A Sensor Coverage Game with Improved Efficiency Guarantees," American Control Conference, 2016.

J.R. Marden and J.S. Shamma, "Game Theory and Distributed Control," Handbook of Game Theory, Volume IV, edited by Peyton Young and Shmuel Zamir, Elsevier Science, Volume 4, Pages 861-899, 2015.

J.R. Marden, B. Touri, R. Gopalakrishnan, and J.P. O'Brien, "The impact of information in a simple multiagent collaborative task," Conference on Decision and Control, 2015.

H. Borowski and J.R. Marden, "Understanding the Influence of Adversaries in Distributed Systems," Conference on Decision and Control, 2015.

P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "Optimal Mechanisms for Robust Coordination in Congestion Games," Conference on Decision and Control, 2015.

J.R. Marden, "Selecting Efficient Correlated Equilibria Through Distributed Learning," American Control Conference, 2015.

J.R. Marden, H.P. Young, and L.Y. Pao, "Achieving Pareto Optimality Through Distributed Learning," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Volume 52, Issue 2, Pages 2753-2770, 2014.  [SIAM/CST Best Sicon Paper Prize]

R. Gopalakrishnan, J.R. Marden, and A. Wierman, "Potential Games are Necessary to Ensure Pure Nash Equilibria in Cost Sharing Games," Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 39, Number 4, Pages 1252-1296, 2014.

N. Li and J.R. Marden, "Decoupling Coupled Constraints Through Utility Design," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 59, Issue 8, Pages 2289-2294, 2014.

J.R. Marden and T. Roughgarden, "Generalized Efficiency Bounds in Distributed Resource Allocation," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 59, Number 3, Pages 571-584, 2014.

J.R. Marden, "The Role of Information in Multiagent Coordination," Conference on Decision and Control, 2014.

H. Borowski, J.R. Marden, and J.S. Shamma, "Learning Efficient Correlated Equilibria," Conference on Decision and Control, 2014.     

R. Gopalakrishnan, S. Nixon, J.R. Marden, "Stable Utility Design for Distributed Resource Allocation," Conference on Decision and Control, 2014.

H. Borowski and J.R. Marden, "Fast Convergence for Time-Varying Semi-Anonymous Potential Games," American Control Conference, 2014.

P. Gebraad, F. Teeuwisse, J.W. van Wingerden, P. Fleming, S. Ruben, J.R. Marden, L.Y. Pao, "A Data-Driven Model for Wind Plant Power Optimization by Yaw Control", American Control Conference, 2014.

N. Li and J.R. Marden, "Designing Games for Distributed Optimization," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, special issue on Adaptation and Learning over Complex Networks, Volume 7, Number 2, Pages 230-242, 2013.

J.R. Marden, S. Ruben, and L.Y. Pao, "A Model-Free Approach to Wind Farm Control Using Game Theoretic Methods," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology}

special issue ``to tame the wind: advanced control applications in wind energy," Volume 21, Number 4, Pages 1207-1214, 2013.

J.R. Marden and A. Wierman, "Distributed Welfare Games," Operations Research, Volume 61, Issue 1, Pages 155-168, 2013.

J.R. Marden and A. Wierman, "Overcoming The Limitations of Utility Design for Multiagent Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 58, Number 6, Pages 1402-1415, 2013.

P.N. Brown and J.R. Marden, "Social Coordination in Unknown Price-Sensitive Populations,'' Conference on Decision and Control, 2013.

H. Borowski, J.R. Marden, and E.W. Frew, "Fast Convergence in Semi-Anonymous Potential Games," Conference on Decision and Control, 2013.

H. Borowski, J.R. Marden, D.S. Leslie and E.W. Frew, "Coarse Resistance Tree Methods For Stochastic Stability Analysis," Conference on Decision and Control, 2013.

R. Gopalakrishnan, J.R. Marden, and A. Wierman, "Potential Games are Necessary to Ensure Pure Nash Equilibria in Cost Sharing Games," ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2013.

J.R. Marden, "State Based Potential Games," Automatica, Volume 48, Pages 3075-3088, 2012.

J.R. Marden and J.S. Shamma, "Revisiting Log-Linear Learning: Asynchrony, Completeness and a Payoff-based Implementation," Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 75, Issue 2, Pages 788-808, 2012.

J.R. Marden and M. Effros, "The Price of Selfishness in Network Coding,"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 58, Issue 4, Pages 2349-2361, 2012.

J.R. Marden, H. P. Young, and L. Pao, "Achieving Pareto optimality through distributed learning," Conference on Decision and Control, 2012.

L. Na and J.R. Marden, "Designing games for distributed optimization with a time varying communication graph," Conference on Decision and Control, 2012.

R. Gopalakrishnan, J.R. Marden, and A. Wierman, "An architectural view of game theoretic control," ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 38, Number 3, Pages 31-36, 2011.

R. Gopalakrishnan, J.R. Marden, and A. Wierman, "Characterizing Distribution Rules for Cost Sharing Games," International Conference on NETwork Games, Control and Optimization, 2011.

D. Leslie and J.R. Marden, "Equilibrium Selection in Potential Games with Noisy Rewards," International Conference on NETwork Games, Control and Optimization, 2011.

J.R. Marden, S. Ruben, and L.Y. Pao, "Surveying Game Theoretic Approaches for Wind Farm Optimization," AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 2011.

L. Na and J.R. Marden, "Designing games for distributed optimization," Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2011. [Best Student Paper Finalist]

J.R. Marden and T. Roughgarden, "Generalized Efficiency Bounds in Distributed Resource Allocation," Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2010.

N. Li and J.R. Marden, "Designing Games to Handle Coupled Constraints," Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2010.

J.R. Marden, G. Arslan and J.S. Shamma, "Cooperative Control and Potential Games,''

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Part B: Cybernetics, Volume 39, Issue 6, Pages 1393-1407, 2009.

J.R. Marden, H.P. Young, G. Arslan, and J.S. Shamma, "Payoff Based Dynamics for Multi-Player Weakly Acyclic Games," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, special issue on ``Control and Optimization in Cooperative Networks," Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 373-396, 2009.

J.R. Marden, G. Arslan and J.S. Shamma, "Joint Strategy Fictitious Play with Inertia for Potential Games,'' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 54, Issue 2, Pages 208-220, 2009.

J.R. Marden and A. Wierman, "Overcoming Limitations of Game-Theoretic Distributed Control," Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009.

N. Li, J.R. Marden, and J.S. Shamma, "Learning Approaches to the Witsenhausen Counterexample from a View of Potential Games," Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009.

J.R. Marden and M. Effros, "The Price of Selfishness in Network Coding," 5th Workshop on Network Coding Theory and Applications, 2009.

J.R. Marden and M. Effros, "A Game Theoretic Approach to Network Coding," Information Theory Workshop on Networking and Information Theory, June, 2009.

H. Chen, J.R. Marden, and A. Wierman, "On the Impact of Heterogeneity and Back-end Scheduling in Load Balancing Designs," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2008.

Distributed welfare games with applications to sensor coverage," Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2008.

G. Arslan, J.R. Marden and J.S. Shamma, "Autonomous Vehicle-Target Assignment: A Game Theoretical Formulation,'' ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Volume 129, Issue 5, Pages 584-596, 2007.

J.R. Marden, H.P. Young, G. Arslan, and J.S. Shamma, "Payoff Based Dynamics for Multi-Player Weakly Acyclic Games," Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007.

J.R. Marden, G. Arslan and J.S. Shamma, "Connections Between Cooperative Control and Potential Games Illustrated on the Consensus Problem,'' Proceedings of the European Control Conference, 2007.

J.R. Marden, G. Arslan and J.S. Shamma, "Regret Based Dynamics: Convergence in Weakly Acyclic Games,'' Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on

Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2007.

J.R. Marden, G. Arslan and J.S. Shamma, "Joint Strategy Fictitious Play with Inertia for Potential Games,'' Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005.

J. R. Marden, "Learning in Large-Scale Games and Cooperative Control", Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, June, 2007.

J. R. Marden, "Coordination of Multiple Agents Using Neuro-Dynamic Programming", MS Thesis, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, June, 2004.