[DMANET] PhD thesis in co-tutelle between Polytechnic Montreal and INRIA Lille INOCS team.

PhD thesis in co-tutelle between Polytechnic Montreal and INRIA Lille INOCS team.
Supervisors:
Luce Brotcorne INRIA
Michel Gendreau Polytechnique Montreal (michel.gendreau@polymtl.ca) , Miguel Anjos Universite d'Edinburgh (Miguel.F.Anjos@ed.ac.uk)
18 months spent in Lille and 18 months spent in Montreal
Dead Line April 26.


Title
Adaptive incentive mechanisms for equilibrium calculation - application to the coordination of smart charging of electric vehicles

This thesis will be carried out in co-tutelle between Polytechnique Montreal and INRIA Lille Nord Europe. INOCS Team

Many non-cooperative games have multiple equilibria and agents potentially have heterogeneous preferences for these equilibria. In this thesis, our goal is to develop algorithms to compute solutions of the non-cooperative game (a) whose convergence and performance will be analyzed, (b) that allow the automatic traversal of all equilibria solutions of the game, (c) that allow the characterization of the computed equilibrium and the coordination of agents on an equilibrium possessing desirable properties for all agents.

Applications to the coordination of electric vehicle charging: The theoretical work developed in this project will be applied to the coordination of electric vehicle charging. We will place ourselves in the context of a shared charging station infrastructure deployed within an urban metropolis. The objective will be to define the incentives at each charging station (price signals, contracts with different levels of service quality, etc.) and the information structure (nature of the reported information, information costs), in order to avoid congestion at the stations during peak hours.

Candidates must hold a master degree in computer sciences, mathematics, or operations research. Knowledge of optimization solvers and a strong background in programming are welcomed.

Candidates should send a CV and a motivation letter to Luce Brotcorne(Luce.Brotcorne@inria.fr) by April 25, 2021.




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