Chapter 6 Decentralized Optimization

Rather than collecting all problem parameters and performing a central calculation, distributed algorithms are computed by many agents that obtain certain problem parameters via communication with a limited set of neighbors. (Molzahn et al. 2017)

References

Molzahn, Daniel K, Florian Dörfler, Henrik Sandberg, Steven H Low, Sambuddha Chakrabarti, Ross Baldick, and Javad Lavaei. 2017. “A Survey of Distributed Optimization and Control Algorithms for Electric Power Systems.” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 8 (6): 2941–62.