Journal Papers

  • Joshua Seaton and Philip N. Brown, "All Stable Equilibria Have Improved Performance Guarantees in Submodular Maximization With Communication-Denied Agents," in IEEE Letters of the Control Systems Society (L-CSS), 2022. IEEEXplore
  • Bryce Ferguson, Philip N. Brown, and Jason R. Marden, "The Effectiveness of Subsidies and Tolls in Congestion Games," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021. arXiv | IEEEXplore
  • Bryce Ferguson, Philip N. Brown, and Jason R. Marden, "The Effectiveness of Subsidies and Tolls in Atomic Congestion Games," in IEEE Letters of the Control Systems Society (L-CSS), 2021. IEEEXplore
  • Bryce Ferguson, Philip N. Brown, and Jason R. Marden, "How Information Affects Incentive Design: A Case-Study in Simple Congestion Networks," (submitted for journal publication), 2020. Preprints available.
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "Can Taxes Improve Congestion on all Networks?" in IEEE Transactions on the Control of Network Systems, 2020. arXiv | IEEEXplore
  • Keith Paarporn, Brian Canty, Philip N. Brown, Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Jason R. Marden, " The Impact of Complex and Informed Adversarial Behavior in Graphical Coordination Games," in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2020. arXiv | IEEEXplore
  • Philip N. Brown, Holly P. Borowski, and Jason R. Marden, "Security Against Impersonation Attacks in Multiagent Systems," IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2018. arXiv | IEEEXplore
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "Optimal Mechanisms for Robust Coordination in Congestion Games,"  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 63, no. 8, August, 2018 pp. 2437-2448. 2018. PDF | IEEEXplore
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "The Robustness of Marginal-Cost Taxes in Affine Congestion
    Games," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 8    . August, 2017 pp. 3999-4004. PDF
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "Studies on Robust Social Influence Mechanisms: Incentives for Efficient Network Routing in Uncertain Settings," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 98-115, 2017. PDF

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • Pam Russell and Philip N. Brown, "The Philos Trust Algorithm: Preventing Exploitation of Distributed Trust," in IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, 2022 (to appear).
  • Brendan Gould and Philip N. Brown, "On Partial Adoption of Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communication: When Should Cars Warn Each Other of Hazards?" in 2022 American Control Conference, 2022.
  • Christopher Gorog, Pam Russell, Terrance E. Boult, and Philip N. Brown, "Carbon-Neutral Distributed Ledger," in IEEE PES Transactive Energy Systems Conference, 2022.
  • Vjiay Banerjee, Ryan Rabinowitz, Mark Stidd, Rory Lewis, Philip N. Brown, and Gedare BLoom, "The Tragedy of the Miners," in IEEE 19th Annual Consumer Communications \& Networking Conference (CCNC), 2022. IEEEXplore
  • Philip N. Brown, "Providing slowdown information to improve selfish routing," in EAI GameNets 2021. [Best Paper Award]
  • Brandon Collins, Gia Barboza, Lisa Hines, and Philip N. Brown, "Robust Stochastic Stability in Dynamic and Reactive Environments," in 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021. arXiv | IEEEXplore
  • Brandon Collins, Shouhuai Xu, and Philip N. Brown, " Paying Firms to Share Cyber Threat Intelligence," in GameSec 2021. Springer
  • Ruolin Li, Philip N. Brown, and Roberto Horowitz, "A Highway Toll Lane Framework that Unites Autonomous Vehicles and High-occupancy Vehicles," in 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2021. arXiv | IEEEXplore
  • Joshua Seaton and Philip N. Brown, "The Price of Anarchy is Fragile in Single-Selection Coverage Games," submitted for conference publication, 2021. arXiv
  • Philip N. Brown, Brandon Collins, Colton Hill, Gia Barboza, and Lisa Hines, "Individual Altruism Cannot Overcome Congestion Effects in a Global Pandemic Game," submitted to conference, 2021. arXiv
  • Philip N. Brown, "When Altruism Is Worse Than Anarchy in Nonatomic Congestion Games," in proceedings of 2021 American Control Conference, 2021. arXiv
  • Ruolin Li, Philip N. Brown, and Roberto Horowitz, "Employing Altruistic Vehicles at On-Ramps to Improve the Social Traffic Conditions," in proceedings of 2021 American Control Conference, 2021.
  • David Grimsman, Joshua Seaton, Jason R. Marden, and Philip N. Brown, "The Cost of Denied Observation in Multiagent Submodular Optimization," in proceedings of 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2020. arXiv | IEEEXplore
  • Brandon Collins and Philip N. Brown, "Exploiting an Adversary's Intentions in Graphical Coordination Games," in proceedings of 2020 American Control Conference, 2020. arXiv | IEEEXplore
  • Bryce Ferguson, Philip N. Brown, and Jason R. Marden, "Carrots or Sticks? The Effectiveness of Subsidies and Tolls in Congestion Games," in proceedings of 2020 American Control Conference, 2020. arXiv | IEEEXplore [Best student paper award finalist]
  • Philip N. Brown, "Designing for Emergent Security in Heterogeneous Human-Machine Teams," in Proceedings of 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019. arXiv | IEEEXplore
  • Bryce Ferguson, Philip N. Brown, and Jason R. Marden, "Utilizing Information Optimally to Influence Distributed Network Routing," in proceedings of 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019.
  • Philip N. Brown, "A Tragedy of Autonomy: Self-Driving Cars and Urban Congestion Externalities," in proceedings of 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2019.
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "On the feasibility of local utility redesign for multiagent optimization," in Proceedings of European Control Conference, 2019.
  • Brian Canty, Philip N. Brown, Mahnoosh Alizadeh, and Jason R. Marden, "The Impact of Informed Adversarial Behavior in Graphical Coordination Games," in Proceedings of 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2018.
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "The Benefit of Perversity in Taxation Mechanisms for Distributed Routing," in Proceedings of 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2017.
  • Jorge I. Poveda, Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, and Andrew R. Teel, "A Class of Distributed Adaptive Pricing Mechanisms for Societal Systems with Limited Information," in Proceedings of 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2017. [Best student paper award finalist]
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "Fundamental Limits of Locally-Computed Incentives in Network Routing," in Proceedings of American Control Conference. 2017. PDF
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "Avoiding Perverse Incentives in Affine Congestion Games," in Proceedings of 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. 2016. PDF [Best student paper award finalist]
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "A Study on Price Discrimination for Robust Social Coordination," in Proceedings of American Control Conference. 2016. PDF
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "Optimal Mechanisms for Robust Coordination in Congestion Games," in Proceedings of 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. 2015. PDF
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "Social Coordination in Unknown Price-Sensitive Populations," in Proceedings of 52th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. 2013. PDF

Brief Papers

  • Philip N. Brown, "An Upper Bound on the Cardinality of a Minimum Feedback Vertex Set for Directed Graphs," 2020. PDF
  • Philip N. Brown, "Incentives for Crypto-Collateralized Digital Assets," in proceedings of 3rd Annual Decentralized Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 2019. MDPI
  • Philip N. Brown, Holly P. Borowski, and Jason R. Marden, "Projecting Network Games onto Sparse Graphs," invited paper, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2018. IEEEXplore
  • Philip N. Brown, Jason R. Marden, "Studies on mechanisms for robust social influence," in proceedings of 2017 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2017. IEEEXplore