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12 Nov

On the Effects of Buy-Back Policies: A Model of the Smartphone Circular Economy

12/11/2026    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Tiphaine George
This work develops a simple model of the smartphone circular economy where the buy-back price offered to consumers is the main control variable. The model [...]
19 Nov

Structure-Aware Distributed Computing: From Theory to Computing in Space

19/11/2026    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ahmad Tanha
Distributed computing has become essential for processing large-scale computational tasks across interconnected devices and networks. However, its efficiency is often limited by communication costs, computational [...]
26 Nov

EvoHGS: Co-evolving Language Models with Hybrid Genetic Search for Vehicle Routing Problems

26/11/2026    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Zihao-Éric Guo
Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) are a fundamental class of combinatorial optimization problems aimed to find high-quality routes for vehicles under operational constraints. Despite decades of [...]
03 Dec

Market Equilibrium based Co-Opetitive Infrastructure Sharing

03/12/2026    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Mandar Datar
Collaborative infrastructure deployment increasingly involves multiple independent stakeholders that jointly invest in shared resources while remaining competitors in their subsequent utilization. This interplay between cooperation [...]
10 Dec

Variable-length stop-feedback codes

10/12/2026    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Guodong Sun
This work discusses the fundamental limits of Variable-Length Stop-Feedback (VLSF) communication systems, in which transmission continues until an acknowledgment is received. It focuses on developing [...]