Project
AA-Ener-2
Contract Design for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Project Heads
Max Klimm, Philipp Warode
Project Members
Paul Laurids Lippke
Project Duration
01.01.2026 − 31.12.2028
Located at
TU Berlin
Short Description
This project studies contract design for combinatorial optimization problems. The core setting is a principal-agent interaction in infrastructure networks: the user side aims for high network utility, while the operator side mainly minimizes operating costs. We model this tension as a bilevel optimization problem with linear contracts.
Methodologically, we combine combinatorial optimization, parametric flow techniques, approximation, and duality-based methods. The goal is to develop computationally efficient and mathematically robust contract mechanisms for real-world network applications in mobility and energy.
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