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Nicolas Gast

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Since 2014, I am a research associate in Inria, Grenoble. My research focuses on the development and the use of stochastic models and optimization methods for the design of control algorithms in large-scale systems. I work on the control of energy networks.

Publications

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Exponential Asymptotic Optimality of Whittle Index Policy.

Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal , Chen Yan
Queueing Systems, 2023, 104, pp.1-44. ⟨10.1007/s11134-023-09875-x⟩
Journal articles hal-03041176v2
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Testing Indexability and Computing Whittle and Gittins Index in Subcubic Time

Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal , Kimang Khun
Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 2023, ⟨10.1007/s00186-023-00821-4⟩
Journal articles hal-03602458v5

Bias and Refinement of Multiscale Mean Field Models

Sebastian Allmeier , Nicolas Gast
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems , 2023, 7 (1), pp.1-29. ⟨10.1145/3579336⟩
Journal articles hal-03981002v1
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Learning algorithms for Markovian Bandits: Is Posterior Sampling more Scalable than Optimism?

Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal , Kimang Khun
Transactions on Machine Learning Research Journal, 2022
Journal articles hal-03262006v3
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Mean Field and Refined Mean Field Approximations for Heterogeneous Systems: It Works!

Sebastian Allmeier , Nicolas Gast
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems , 2022, 6 (1), pp.1-43. ⟨10.1145/3508033⟩
Journal articles hal-03600672v1
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Why (and When) do Asymptotic Methods Work so well?

Nicolas Gast
Queueing Systems, In press, pp.1-3. ⟨10.1007/s11134-022-09834-y⟩
Journal articles hal-03638310v1
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Analysis of Work Stealing with latency

Nicolas Gast , Mohammed Khatiri , Denis Trystram , Frédéric Wagner
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2021, 153, pp.119-129. ⟨10.1016/j.jpdc.2021.03.010⟩
Journal articles hal-03356234v1
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On fair selection in the presence of implicit and differential variance

Vitalii Emelianov , Nicolas Gast , Krishna P Gummadi , Patrick Loiseau
Artificial Intelligence, 2021, 302, pp.1-20. ⟨10.1016/j.artint.2021.103609⟩
Journal articles hal-03398739v1

Linear Regression from Strategic Data Sources

Nicolas Gast , Stratis Ioannidis , Patrick Loiseau , Benjamin Roussillon
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 2020, 8 (2), pp.1-24. ⟨10.1145/3391436⟩
Journal articles hal-02982682v1
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A Mean Field Game Analysis of SIR Dynamics with Vaccination

Josu Doncel , Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 2020, pp.1-18. ⟨10.1017/S0269964820000522⟩
Journal articles hal-01496885v2
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Performance analysis methods for list-based caches with non-uniform access

Giuliano Casale , Nicolas Gast
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2020, pp.1-18. ⟨10.1109/TNET.2020.3042869⟩
Journal articles hal-03102188v1
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Discrete Mean Field Games: Existence of Equilibria and Convergence

Josu Doncel , Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal
Journal of Dynamics and Games, 2019, 6 (3), pp.1-19. ⟨10.3934/jdg.2019016⟩
Journal articles hal-01277098v2
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A refined mean field approximation of synchronous discrete-time population models

Nicolas Gast , Diego Latella , Mieke Massink
Performance Evaluation, 2018, pp.1-27. ⟨10.1016/j.peva.2018.05.002⟩
Journal articles hal-01845235v1
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Size Expansions of Mean Field Approximation: Transient and Steady-State Analysis

Nicolas Gast , Luca Bortolussi , Mirco Tribastone
Performance Evaluation, inPress, pp.1-15
Journal articles hal-01891632v1
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Computing Absorbing Times via Fluid Approximations

Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal
Advances in Applied Probability, 2017
Journal articles hal-01553138v1
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TTL Approximations of the Cache Replacement Algorithms LRU(m) and h-LRU

Nicolas Gast , Benny van Houdt
Performance Evaluation, 2017, ⟨10.1016/j.peva.2017.09.002⟩
Journal articles hal-01622059v1
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A Refined Mean Field Approximation

Nicolas Gast , Benny van Houdt
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems , 2017, 1 (28), ⟨10.1145/3152542⟩
Journal articles hal-01622054v1
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Transient and Steady-state Regime of a Family of List-based Cache Replacement Algorithms

Nicolas Gast , Benny van Houdt
Queueing Systems, 2016, Special Issue: SIGMETRICS 2015, ⟨10.1007/s11134-016-9487-9⟩
Journal articles hal-01334354v1
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Attribution mechanisms for ancillary service costs induced by variability in power delivery

Francesca Bona , Nicolas Gast , Jean-Yves Le Boudec , Pierre Pinson , Dan-Cristian Tomozei
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2016, pp.10. ⟨10.1109/TPWRS.2016.2598760⟩
Journal articles hal-01403913v1
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Optimal Generation and Storage Scheduling in the Presence of Renewable Forecast Uncertainties

Nicolas Gast , Dan-Cristian Tomozei , Jean-Yves Le Boudec
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2014, pp.12. ⟨10.1109/TSG.2013.2285395⟩
Journal articles hal-01086022v1
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Incentives and redistribution in homogeneous bike-sharing systems with stations of finite capacity

Christine Fricker , Nicolas Gast
EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, 2014, pp.31. ⟨10.1007/s13676-014-0053-5⟩
Journal articles hal-01086009v1
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MPTCP is not Pareto-Optimal: Performance Issues and a Possible Solution

Ramin Khalili , Nicolas Gast , Miroslav Popovic , Jean-Yves Le Boudec
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2013, pp.15. ⟨10.1109/TNET.2013.2274462⟩
Journal articles hal-01086030v1

Decentralized List Scheduling

Marc Tchiboukdjian , Nicolas Gast , Denis Trystram
Annals of Operations Research, 2012, ⟨10.1007/s10479-012-1149-7⟩
Journal articles hal-00796248v1

Markov chains with discontinuous drifts have differential inclusion limits

Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal
Performance Evaluation, 2012, 69 (12), pp.623-642. ⟨10.1016/j.peva.2012.07.003⟩
Journal articles hal-00787999v1

Mean field for Markov Decision Processes: from Discrete to Continuous Optimization

Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal , Jean-Yves Le Boudec
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2012, 57 (9), pp.2266 - 2280. ⟨10.1109/TAC.2012.2186176⟩
Journal articles hal-00787996v1

Distributed Delay-Power Control Algorithms for Bandwidth Sharing in Wireless Networks.

François Baccelli , Nicholas Bambos , Nicolas Gast
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2011, 19 (5), pp.1458-1471. ⟨10.1109/TNET.2011.2163079⟩
Journal articles hal-00940546v1

A Mean Field Approach for Optimization in Discrete Time

Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 2011, 21, pp.63-101. ⟨10.1007/s10626-010-0094-3⟩
Journal articles hal-00788770v1
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Infinite labeled trees: From rational to Sturmian trees

Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal
Theoretical Computer Science, 2010, 411, pp.1146 - 1166. ⟨10.1016/j.tcs.2009.12.009⟩
Journal articles hal-01086034v1
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Decentralized model-free reinforcement learning in stochastic games with average-reward objective

Romain Cravic , Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal
AAMAS 2023 - International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2023, London (U.K.), United Kingdom. pp.1-13
Conference papers hal-04161628v1
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Fairness in Selection Problems with Strategic Candidates

Vitalii Emelianov , Nicolas Gast , Patrick Loiseau
EC 2022 - 23th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Jul 2022, Boulder, Colorado, United States. pp.1-29, ⟨10.1145/3490486.3538287⟩
Conference papers hal-03677966v1

Asymptotic Degradation of Linear Regression Estimates with Strategic Data Sources

Benjamin Roussillon , Nicolas Gast , Patrick Loiseau , Panayotis Mertikopoulos
ALT 2022 - 33rd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, Mar 2022, Paris, France. pp.1-31
Conference papers hal-03593516v1
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Experiments in Operations Research are Hardly Reproducible: A Bike-Sharing Case-Study.

Thomas Barzola , Van-Dat Cung , Nicolas Gast , Vincent Jost
23ème congrès annuel de la Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision, INSA Lyon, Feb 2022, Villeurbanne - Lyon, France
Conference papers hal-03595289v1
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Vaccination in a Large Population: Mean Field Equilibrium versus Social Optimum

Bruno Gaujal , Josu Doncel , Nicolas Gast
NETGCOOP 2020 - 10th International Conference on NETwork Games, COntrol and OPtimization, Sep 2021, Cargèse, France. pp.1-9
Conference papers hal-02938850v1
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rmftool - A library to Compute (Refined) Mean Field Approximation(s)

Sebastian Allmeier , Nicolas Gast
TOSME 2021, Nov 2021, Online conference, France
Conference papers hal-03485044v1
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Collisions groupées lors du mécanisme d'évitement de collisions de CPL-G3

Mouhcine Mendil , Nicolas Gast , Henry-Joseph Audéoud
CoRes 2020 - Rencontres Francophones sur la Conception de Protocoles, l’Évaluation de Performance et l’Expérimentation des Réseaux de Communication, Sep 2020, Lyon, France. pp.1-4
Conference papers hal-02879294v1

On Fair Selection in the Presence of Implicit Variance

Vitalii Emelianov , Nicolas Gast , Krishna P. Gummadi , Patrick Loiseau
EC 2020 - Twenty-First ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Jul 2020, Budapest, Hungary. pp.649-675, ⟨10.1145/3391403.3399482⟩
Conference papers hal-02880578v1
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The Price of Local Fairness in Multistage Selection

Vitalii Emelianov , George Arvanitakis , Nicolas Gast , Krishna P Gummadi , Patrick Loiseau
IJCAI-2019 - Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aug 2019, Macao, France. pp.5836-5842, ⟨10.24963/ijcai.2019/809⟩
Conference papers hal-02145071v1
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ASGriDS: Asynchronous Smart-Grids Distributed Simulator

Takai-Eddine Kennouche , Florent Cadoux , Nicolas Gast , Benoît Vinot
APPEEC 2019 - 11th IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, Dec 2019, Macao, Macau SAR China. pp.1-5
Conference papers hal-02384051v1
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UTOPIC: Under-Approximation Through Optimal Control

Josu Doncel , Nicolas Gast , Mirco Tribastone , Max Tschaikowski , Andrea Vandin
QEST 2019 - 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems, Sep 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom. pp.277-291, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_16⟩
Conference papers hal-02283189v1
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Congestion Avoidance in Low-Voltage Networks by using the Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Benoit Vinot , Florent Cadoux , Nicolas Gast
ePerf 2018 - IFIP WG PERFORMANCE - 36th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evalution, Dec 2018, Toulouse, France. pp.1-3
Conference papers hal-01953386v1
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A Refined Mean Field Approximation

Nicolas Gast , Benny Van Houdt
ACM SIGMETRICS 2018, Jun 2018, Irvine, United States. pp.1
Conference papers hal-01891642v1
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Size Expansions of Mean Field Approximation: Transient and Steady-State Analysis

Nicolas Gast , Luca Bortolussi , Mirco Tribastone
2018 - 36th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation, Dec 2018, Toulouse, France. pp.1-2, ⟨10.1016/j.peva.2018.09.005⟩
Conference papers hal-01891636v1
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A Refined Mean Field Approximation for Synchronous Population Processes

Nicolas Gast , Diego Latella , Mieke Massink
MAMA 2018Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis, Jun 2018, Irvine, United States. pp.1-3
Conference papers hal-01891629v1
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Expected Values Estimated via Mean-Field Approximation are 1/N-Accurate

Nicolas Gast
ACM SIGMETRICS / International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems SIGMETRICS '17 , Jun 2017, Urbana-Champaign, United States. pp.26, ⟨10.1145/2896377.2901463⟩
Conference papers hal-01553133v1
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Construction of Lyapunov functions via relative entropy with application to caching

Nicolas Gast
The 18th Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis, Jun 2016, Nice, France
Conference papers hal-01321017v2
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Asymptotically Exact TTL-Approximations of the Cache Replacement Algorithms LRU(m) and h-LRU

Nicolas Gast , Benny van Houdt
28th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 28), Sep 2016, Würzburg, Germany
Conference papers hal-01292269v1
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Mean Field Approximation of Uncertain Stochastic Models

Luca Bortolussi , Nicolas Gast
46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2016), Jun 2016, Toulouse, France
Conference papers hal-01302416v1
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Are mean-field games the limits of finite stochastic games?

Josu Doncel , Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal
The 18th Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis, Jun 2016, Nice, France
Conference papers hal-01321020v1
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Probabilistic Forecasts of Bike-Sharing Systems for Journey Planning

Nicolas Gast , Guillaume Massonnet , Daniël Reijsbergen , Mirco Tribastone
The 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), Oct 2015, Melbourne, Australia. ⟨10.1145/2806416.2806569⟩
Conference papers hal-01185840v1
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Transient and Steady-state Regime of a Family of List-based Cache Replacement Algorithms

Nicolas Gast , Benny van Houdt
ACM SIGMETRICS 2015, Jun 2015, Portland, United States. ⟨10.1145/2745844.2745850⟩
Conference papers hal-01143838v1
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The Power of Two Choices on Graphs: the Pair-Approximation is Accurate

Nicolas Gast
Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis, Jun 2015, Portland, United States
Conference papers hal-01199271v1
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Impact of Demand-Response on the Efficiency and Prices in Real-Time Electricity Markets

Nicolas Gast , Jean-Yves Le Boudec , Dan-Cristian Tomozei
ACM e-Energy 2014, Jun 2014, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ⟨10.1145/2602044.2602052⟩
Conference papers hal-01086036v1
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Impact of Storage on the Efficiency and Prices in Real-Time Electricity Markets

Nicolas Gast , Jean-Yves Leboudec , Alexandre Proutière , Dan-Cristian Tomozei
ACM e-Energy, May 2013, Berkeley, United States. pp.12, ⟨10.1145/2487166.2487169⟩
Conference papers hal-00920091v1
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Mean field analysis for inhomogeneous bike sharing systems

Christine Fricker , Nicolas Gast , Hanene Mohamed
AofA, Jul 2012, Montreal, Canada. ⟨10.46298/dmtcs.3006⟩
Conference papers hal-01086055v1
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MPTCP is not pareto-optimal : performance issues and a possible solution.

Ramin Khalili , Nicolas Gast , Miroslav Popovic , Utkarsh Upadhyay , Jean-Yves Le Boudec
ACM CoNEXT 2012, Dec 2012, Nice, France. pp.1, ⟨10.1145/2413176.2413178⟩
Conference papers hal-01086043v1

A Tighter Analysis of Work Stealing

Marc Tchiboukdjian , Nicolas Gast , Denis Trystram , Jean-Louis Roch , Julien Bernard
The 21st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), 2010, Jeju Island, South Korea. pp.291-302, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-17514-5_25⟩
Conference papers hal-00788864v1

Mean field limit of non-smooth systems and differential inclusions

Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal
MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA), 2010, New-York, United States. pp.30-32, ⟨10.1145/1870178.1870189⟩
Conference papers hal-00788863v1

A Mean Field Model of Work Stealing in Large-Scale Systems

Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal
ACM sigmetrics, 2010, New-York, United States. pp.13-24, ⟨10.1145/1811039.1811042⟩
Conference papers hal-00788862v1

Mean field limits for controlled system

Nicolas Gast
NET-COOP 2010 - 4th Workshop on Network Control and Optimization, Nov 2010, Ghent, Belgium
Conference papers inria-00597572v1

A Mean Field Approach for Optimization in Particle Systems and Applications

Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal
Fourth International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, Valuetools, 2009, Pisa, Italy. pp.10, ⟨10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2009.7477⟩
Conference papers hal-00788908v1
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Mean-Field Limits Beyond Ordinary Differential Equations

Luca Bortolussi , Nicolas Gast
Bernardo, Marco; De Nicola, Rocco; Hillston, Jane. Formal Methods for the Quantitative Evaluation of Collective Adaptive Systems, Programming and Software Engineering, , 2016, 978-3-319-34095-1. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-34096-8_3⟩
Book sections hal-01334358v1
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Optimization and Control of Large Systems: Fighting the Curse of Dimensionality

Nicolas Gast
Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]. Université Grenoble Alpes, 2010. English. ⟨NNT : ⟩
Theses tel-01875211v1
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Refinements of Mean Field Approximation

Nicolas Gast
Performance [cs.PF]. Université Grenoble Alpes, 2020
Habilitation à diriger des recherches tel-02509756v1