Publications

Journal papers

J8. “Maximal Dissent: a State-Dependent Way to Agree in Distributed Convex Optimization,” A. Verma, M. M. Vasconcelos, U. Mitra and B. Touri, Accepted in January 2023 to IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.

J7. “Optimal strategy for public good production is set by balancing intertemporal trade-off between population growth rate and carrying capacity,” M. S. Gangan, M. M. Vasconcelos, U. Mitra, O. Camara and J. Q. Boedicker, iScience 25, 104117, April 15, 2022.

J6. “Remote estimation over the collision channel with and without local communication,” X. Zhang, M. M. Vasconcelos, W. Cui and U. Mitra, Accepted in June 2021 to IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 282–294, March 2022.

J5. “Data-driven sensor scheduling for remote estimation in wireless networks”, M. M. Vasconcelos and U. Mitra, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 725–737, June 2021.

J4. “Optimal sensor scheduling for networked estimation with energy harvesting”, M. M. Vasconcelos, M. Gagrani, A. Nayyar and U. Mitra, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1723–1735, December 2020.

J3. “Observation-driven scheduling for remote estimation of two Gaussian random variables”, M. M. Vasconcelos and U. Mitra, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 232–244, March 2020.

J2. “Optimal remote estimation of discrete random variables over the collision channel”, M. M. Vasconcelos and N. C. Martins, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1519–1534, 2019.

J1. “Optimal estimation over the collision channel”, M. M. Vasconcelos and N. C. Martins, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 321–336, January 2017.

Book chapter

B1. “A survey on remote estimation problems”, M. M. Vasconcelos and N. C. Martins, Principles of Cyber-physical Systems, S. Roy and S. Das, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Conference papers

C21. “Top-k data selection via distributed sample quantile inference,” X. Zhang and M. M. Vasconcelos, (Submitted to) 5th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC) Conference, UPenn - PA, 2023.

C20. “Strategic multi-task coordination over regular networks of robots with limited computation and communication capabilities,” Y. Wei and M. M. Vasconcelos, (Submitted to) Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore - MD, 2023.

C19. “Robust remote estimation over the collision channel in the presence of an intelligent jammer,” X Zhang and M. M. Vasconcelos, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun - Mexico, 2022.

C18. “Bio-inspired multi-agent coordination games with Poisson observations,” M. M. Vasconcelos, (Submitted to) Conference on Network Systems, Zurich - Switzerland, 2022.

C17. “Learning distributed channel access policies for networked estimation: data-driven optimization in the mean-field regime,” M. M. Vasconcelos, Proceedings of The 4th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC) Conference, PMLR 168:702-712, Stanford - CA, 2022.

C16. “Max-Gossip Subgradient Method for Distributed Optimization,” A. Verma, M. M. Vasconcelos, U. Mitra and B. Touri, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin - TX, 2021.

C15. “Improved Convergence Rate for a Distributed Two-Time-Scale Gradient Method under Random Quantization”, M. M. Vasconcelos, T. T. Doan and U. Mitra, to IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin - TX, 2021.

C14. “A sample-efficient scheme for channel resource allocation in networked estimation”, M. M. Vasconcelos and U. Mitra, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toronto - Canada, 2021.

C13. “An optimal symmetric threshold strategy for remote estimation over the collision channel”, X. Zhang, M. M. Vasconcelos, W. Cui and U. Mitra, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Barcelona - Spain, 2020.

C12. “Optimization for data-driven wireless sensor scheduling”, M. M. Vasconcelos and U. Mitra, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove - California, 2019. (invited)

C11. “A continuous-time decision-making model for bacterial growth via quorum sensing: theory and evidence”, M. M. Vasconcelos, U. Mitra, O. Camara and J. Boedicker, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, Dublin, Ireland, 2019. (invited)

C10. “A sequential decision making model of bacterial growth via quorum sensing”, M. M. Vasconcelos, O. Camara, U. Mitra and J. Boedicker, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove - California, 2018. (invited)

C9. “Scheduling and estimation strategy design in a sequential networked estimation problem”, M. Gagrani, M. M. Vasconcelos, A. Nayyar, 56th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello - Illinois, 2018.

C8. “Bacterial quorum sensing as a networked decision system”, M. M. Vasconcelos, U. Mitra, O. Camara, K. P. Silva and J. Boedicker, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2018.

C7. “Optimal sensor scheduling strategies in networked estimation”, M. M. Vasconcelos, Ashutosh Nayyar and U. Mitra, 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2017.

C6. “The multiple-access collision channel without feedback: capacity region and a mutual information game”, M. M. Vasconcelos and U. Mitra, 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2017.

C5. “Observation-driven sensor scheduling”, M. M. Vasconcelos and U. Mitra, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2017.

C4. “The structure of optimal communication policies for remote estimation over the collision channel with private and common observations”, M. M. Vasconcelos and N. C. Martins, 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2016.

C3. “Optimal threshold strategies for estimation over the collision channel with communication costs”, M. M. Vasconcelos and N. C. Martins, 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2015.

C2. “Remote estimation games over shared networks”, M. M. Vasconcelos and N. C. Martins, 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2014. (invited)

C1. “Estimation over the collision channel: structural results”, M. M. Vasconcelos and N. C. Martins, 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2013. (invited)