Publications

Journal Papers

Swapnil Dhamal, Walid Ben-Ameur, Tijani Chahed, Eitan Altman, Albert Sunny, and Sudheer Poojary. A game theoretic framework for distributed computing with dynamic set of agents.

Annals of Operations Research, in press, 2023.  PDF  Link

Yuan Liao, Caglar Tozluoglu, Frances Sprei, Sonia Yeh, and Swapnil Dhamal.  Impacts of charging behavior on BEV charging infrastructure needs and energy use.

Transportation Research Part D, volume 116, article 103645, pages 1-17, 2023PDF  Link

Caglar Tozluoglu, Swapnil Dhamal*, Sonia Yeh, Frances Sprei, Yuan Liao, Madhav Marathe, Christopher Barrett, and Devdatt DubhashiA synthetic population of Sweden: datasets of agents, households, and activity-travel patterns.

Data in Brief, volume 48, article 109209, pages 1-15, 2023.  PDF  Link 

*Primary contributor to methodology, software, and writing of original draft.

Swapnil Dhamal, Walid Ben-Ameur, Tijani Chahed, Eitan Altman, Albert Sunny, and Sudheer PoojaryStrategic investments in distributed computing: a stochastic game perspective.

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, volume 169, pages 317-333, 2022PDF  Link

Ganesh Ghalme, Swapnil Dhamal, Shweta Jain, Sujit Gujar, and Y Narahari. Ballooning multi-armed bandits.

Artificial Intelligence, volume 296, article 103485, pages 1-22, 2021.  PDF  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal, Walid Ben-Ameur, Tijani Chahed, and Eitan Altman. A two phase investment game for competitive opinion dynamics in social networks.

Information Processing & Management, volume 57, number 2, article 102064, pages 1-20, 2020.  PDF  Link  BibTeX

Eitan Altman, Daniel Menasché, Alexandre Reiffers, Mandar Datar, Swapnil Dhamal, Corinne Touati, and Rachid El-Azouzi. Blockchain competition between miners: a game theoretic perspective.

Frontiers in Blockchain, volume 2, article 26, pages 1-18, 2020.  PDF  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal, Walid Ben-Ameur, Tijani Chahed, and Eitan Altman. Optimal investment strategies for competing camps in a social network: a broad framework. 

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, volume 6, number 4, pages 628-645, 2019.  PDF  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal, Rohith D Vallam, and Y Narahari. Modeling spread of preferences in social networks for sampling-based preference aggregation.

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, volume 6, number 1, pages 46-59, 2019.  PDF  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal, Prabuchandran K J, and Y Narahari. Information diffusion in social networks in two phases.

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, volume 3, number 4, pages 197-210, 2016.  PDF  Link  BibTeX 

Swapnil Dhamal and Y Narahari. Formation of stable strategic networks with desired topologies. 

Studies in Microeconomics, volume 3, number 2, pages 158-213, 2015.  PDF  Link  BibTeX

Refereed Conference & Workshop Papers

Subham Pokhriyal, Shweta Jain, Ganesh Ghalme, Swapnil Dhamal, and Sujit Gujar. Simultaneously achieving group exposure fairness and within-group meritocracy in stochastic bandits.

AAMAS, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, accepted, 2024

Shantanu Das, Swapnil Dhamal, Ganesh Ghalme, Shweta Jain, and Sujit Gujar. Individual fairness in feature-based pricing for monopoly markets.

UAI, Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pages 486-495, 2022PDF  Link

Ganesh Ghalme, Swapnil Dhamal, Shweta Jain, Sujit Gujar, and Y Narahari. Ballooning multi-armed bandits.

AAMAS, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 1849-1851, 2020PDF  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal. An integrated framework for competitive multi-channel marketing of multi-featured products.

COMSNETS, International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, pages 391-394, 2019PDF  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal, Walid Ben-Ameur, Tijani Chahed, and Eitan Altman. Resource allocation polytope games: uniqueness of equilibrium, price of stability, and price of anarchy.

AAAI, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 997-1006, 2018.  PDF  Poster  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal, Walid Ben-Ameur, Tijani Chahed, and Eitan Altman. Optimal multiphase investment strategies for influencing opinions in a social network.

AAMAS, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 1927-1929, 2018.  PDF  Link  BibTeX 

Swapnil Dhamal. Effectiveness of diffusing information through a social network in multiple phases.

GLOBECOM, IEEE Global Communications Conference, pages 1-7, 2018.  PDF  Link  BibTeX

Eitan Altman, Daniel Menasché, Alexandre Reiffers, Mandar Datar, Swapnil Dhamal, and Corinne Touati. Mining competition in a multi-cryptocurrency ecosystem at the network edge: a congestion game approach.

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review: Symposium on Cryptocurrency Analysis, volume 46, number 3, pages 114-117, 2018PDF  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal, Walid Ben-Ameur, Tijani Chahed, and Eitan Altman. Manipulating opinion dynamics in social networks in two phases.

The Joint International Workshop on Social Influence Analysis and Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks, workshop with IJCAI-ECAI, ICML, AAMAS, 2018PDF  Link  BibTeX

Sneha Mondal, Swapnil Dhamal, and Y Narahari. Two-phase influence maximization in social networks with seed nodes and referral incentives.

ICWSM, International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, pages 620-623, 2017.  PDF  Link  BibTeX

Sneha Mondal, Swapnil Dhamal, and Y Narahari. Two-phase influence maximization in social networks with seed nodes and referral incentives.

International Workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks, workshop with WSDM, 2017PDF  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal, Prabuchandran K J, and Y Narahari. A multi-phase approach for improving information diffusion in social networks.

AAMAS, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 1787-1788, 2015.  PDF  Poster  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal and Y Narahari. Scalable preference aggregation in social networks.

HCOMP, AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, pages 42-50, 2013.  PDF  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal and Y Narahari. Forming networks of strategic agents with desired topologies.

WINE, ACM Conference on Web and Internet Economics, pages 504-511, 2012.  PDF  Link  BibTeX

Swapnil Dhamal, Satyanath Bhat, Anoop K R, and Varun Embar. Pattern clustering using cooperative game theory.

Centenary Conference, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, pages 653-658, 2011.  PDF  Link  BibTeX

Preprints & Working Papers

Swapnil Dhamal, Walid Ben-Ameur, and Tijani Chahed. An investment framework for continuous time opinion dynamics on networks.

Caglar Tozluoglu, Swapnil Dhamal*, Yuan Liao, Sonia Yeh, Frances Sprei, Madhav Marathe, Christopher Barrett, and Devdatt Dubhashi. Synthetic Sweden mobility (SySMo) model: A spatially explicit agent-based mobility model with an advanced synthetic population. 

*Primary contributor to methodology, software, and writing of original draft.

Caglar Tozluoglu, Swapnil Dhamal*, Yuan Liao, Sonia Yeh, Frances Sprei, Madhav Marathe, Christopher Barrett, and Devdatt Dubhashi. Heterogeneous activity generation for a synthetic population. 

*Primary contributor to methodology, software, and writing of original draft.

Swapnil Dhamal, Akanksha Meghlan, and Y Narahari. Cooperative game theoretic solution concepts for top-k problems.  PDF  BibTeX

Technical Report

Caglar Tozluoglu, Swapnil Dhamal*, Yuan Liao, Sonia Yeh, Frances Sprei, Madhav Marathe, Christopher Barrett, and Devdatt Dubhashi. Synthetic Sweden mobility (SySMo) model documentation.  PDF 

*Primary contributor to methodology, software, and writing of original draft.

Dissertation

Swapnil Dhamal. New models and methods for formation and analysis of social networks.

PhD Thesis, Advised by Y Narahari, Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Sep 2016.  PDF  BibTeX