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DESCRIPTION:📢 IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Italy Chapter is please
 d to announce a series of research seminars aimed at disseminating cutting
 -edge control research within the Italian academic and industrial communit
 ies.\n\nSeeking Equilibria in Nonconvex Games\n\nDr. Paolo SCARABAGGIO\n\n
 Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI)\, Polytechnic o
 f Bari\n\nAbstract:\n\nWhenever a number of self-interested agents with in
 dividual dynamics and possibly competing objectives interact\, game theory
  provides a natural framework to describe and analyze their behavior. From
  the earliest works\, mathematical elegance and theoretical tractability h
 ave steered multi-agent decision-making models within the safe harbor of c
 onvexity (or concavity). This talk focuses on the existence and computatio
 n of equilibria in nonconvex noncooperative games\, where classical convex
 -analytic tools fail to apply. A notion of local equilibrium is proposed\,
  and its existence and stability are characterized. Two distributed fixed-
 point iterations are presented to compute such equilibria\, with convergen
 ce proven under (strongly) monotone conditions. Finally\, the talk explore
 s a data-driven perspective\, where agents are modeled with neural network
 s\, a setting where convexity is inherently absent. A complementary topolo
 gical framework is also presented\, replacing convexity with homotopy cond
 itions. Applications of these concepts to energy demand management are pre
 sented.\n\nSpeaker short bio:\n\nPaolo Scarabaggio received a Ph.D. in Ele
 ctrical and Information Engineering from Politecnico di Bari\, Italy in 20
 22. He is currently an assistant professor (RTDA) at the Decision and Cont
 rol Laboratory of Politecnico di Bari. In 2019\, he visited the Delft Cent
 er for Systems and Control\, Technical University of Delft\, The Netherlan
 ds. His research interests include modeling\, optimization\, game theory\,
  and control of complex multi-agent systems\, with application in energy d
 istribution systems\, and social networks. He is author of 30+ printed int
 ernational publications. He is the recipient of the 2022 IEEE CSS Italy Be
 st Young Author Journal Paper Award.\n\nAgenda: \n🗓 November 17\, 2025\
 n\n🕒 15:00 - 16:00\n\n📍 Polytechnic of Bari\, Sala Consiliare DEI\n\
 n🔗 Registration: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/065d98a8-5c71
 -4cc5-9f10-1de9d78289f4@5b406aab-a1f1-4f13-a7aa-dd573da3d332\n\nRoom: Sala
  Consiliare\, Bldg: Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (
 DEI)\, Via Re David 200\, Bari\, Puglia\, Italy\, 70126\, Virtual: https:/
 /events.vtools.ieee.org/m/511982
LOCATION:Room: Sala Consiliare\, Bldg: Department of Electrical and Informa
 tion Engineering (DEI)\, Via Re David 200\, Bari\, Puglia\, Italy\, 70126\
 , Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/511982
ORGANIZER:alessandro.rizzo@polito.it
SEQUENCE:9
SUMMARY:[IEEE CSS Italy Chapter Seminar Series @ Poliba – Fall 2025] Seek
 ing Equilibria in Nonconvex Games - Dr. Paolo SCARABAGGIO\, Polytechnic of
  Bari
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 nted to compute such equilibria\, with convergence proven under (strongly)
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 on and Control Laboratory of Politecnico di Bari. In 2019\, he visited the
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