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Learning to Buy (and Sell) Demand Response * *This work was supported in part by NSF grant ECCS-1351621, NSF grant CNS-1239178, NSF grant IIP- 1632124, US DoE under the CERTS initiative, and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.
- Award ID(s):
- 1632124
- PAR ID:
- 10082401
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IFAC-PapersOnLine
- Volume:
- 50
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 2405-8963
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 6761 to 6767
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- Journal Article:
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1193
