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Demand-side management (DSM) has emerged as an important smart grid feature that allows utility companies to maintain desirable grid loads. However, the success of DSM is contingent on active customer participation. Indeed, most existing DSM studies are based on game-theoretic models that assume customers will act rationally and will voluntarily participate in DSM. In contrast, in this paper, the...
Load balancing has been a key concern for distributed systems. In this paper, our distributed system consists of heterogeneous resources with multiple selfish consumers that receive computationally intensive tasks from users and decide for assigning them to resources. The consumers in the system work independently, of which attempts to assign the received tasks to resources with the objective of optimizing...
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