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Journal Papers:

[J19] J. Tang, A. Adler, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Estimating true beliefs from declared opinions," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, conditionally accepted​.

[J18] J. Tang, A. Adler, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Stochastic opinion dynamics under social pressure in arbitrary networks," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, under review.

​[J17] C. Hsu, A. Ajorlou, M. Yildiz, and A. Jadbabaie, "Subscription networks, verification, and media bias," Review of Economic Studies, under review.

​[J16] C. Hsu, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "A game-theoretic model of misinformation spread on social networks," Games and Economic Behavior, under review.

​[J15] A. Ajorlou and A. Jadbabaie, "Sales-Based rebate design," Management Science, vol. 69, pp. 5983–6000, 2023.

​[J14] C. Hsu, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Persuasion, news sharing, and cascades on social networks," available at SSRN, 2021.
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[J13] A. Ajorlou and A. Jadbabaie, "Local optimality of almost piecewise-linear quantizers for Witsenhausen's counterexample," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, pp. 3152-3168, 2020.
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​[J12] A. Ajorlou, A. Jadbabaie, and A. Kakhbod, "Dynamic pricing in social networks: The word of mouth effect," Management Science, vol. 64, pp. 971-979, 2018 [full version].
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[J11] A. Fazeli, 
A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Competitive diffusion in social networks: Quality or seeding?," IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 2, pp. 665- 675, 2017.

[J10] M. M. Asadi, A. Ajorlou, and A. G. Aghdam, "Distributed control of a network of single integrators with limited angular fields of view," Automatica, vol. 63, pp. 187-197, 2016.

[J9] A. Ajorlou, M. M. Asadi, A. G. Aghdam, and S. Blouin, "Distributed consensus control of unicycle agents in the presence of external disturbances," Systems & Control Letters, vol. 82, pp. 86-90, 2015.

[J8] M. A. Rahimian, A. Ajorlou, and A. G. Aghdam, "Digraphs with distinguishable dynamics under the multi-agent agreement protocol," Asian Journal of Control, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1300-1311, 2014 (invited paper).

[J7] A. Ajorlou and A. G. Aghdam, "A bounded distributed connectivity preserving aggregation strategy with collision avoidance property,"  Systems & Control Letters, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 1098-1104, 2013.

[J6] A. Ajorlou and A. G. Aghdam, "Connectivity preservation in nonholonomic multi-agent systems: A bounded distributed control strategy," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,  vol. 58, no. 9, pp. 2366-2371, 2013.

[J5] A. Ajorlou, K. Moezzi, A. G. Aghdam, and S. G. Nersesov, "Two-stage time-optimal formation reconfiguration strategy,"  Systems & Control Letters , vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 496-502, 2013.

[J4] A. Ajorlou, K. Moezzi, A. G. Aghdam, S. Tafazoli, and S. G. Nersesov, "Two-stage energy-optimal formation reconfiguration strategy," Automatica, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 2587-2591, 2012.

[J3] S. Jafari, A. Ajorlou, and A. G. Aghdam, "Leader localization in multi-agent systems subject to failure: a graph-theoretic approach," Automatica, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 1744-1750, 2011.

[J2] A. Ajorlou, A. Momeni, and A. G. Aghdam, "Sufficient conditions for the convergence of a class of nonlinear distributed consensus algorithms," Automatica, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 625-629, 2011.

[J1] A. Ajorlou, A. Momeni, and A. G. Aghdam, "A class of bounded distributed control strategies for connectivity preservation in multi-agent systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 2828-2833, 2010.
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Peer-reviewed Conference Papers:

[C41] X. Wu, A. Ajorlou, Y. Wang, S. Jegelka, and A. Jadbabaie, "On the role of attention masks and LayerNorm in self-attention dynamics," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024, under review.

[C40] M. JafariNodeh, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Belief samples are all you need for social learning,"  63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2024, under review.

[C39] J. Tang, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Evolution of opinions under social pressure on random graphs," in Proceedings of 2024 American Control Conference.

[C38] J. Tang, A. Adler, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Estimating true beliefs from declared opinions," in Proceedings of 2024 American Control Conference.

[C37] X. Wu, A. Ajorlou, Z. Wu, and A. Jadbabaie, "Demystifying oversmoothing in attention-based graph neural networks," in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023 (spotlight paper).

[C36] J. Tang, A. Adler, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Stochastic opinion dynamics under social pressure for general networks," in Proceedings of the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2023.

[C35] C. Hsu, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Persuasion, news sharing, and cascades on social networks," in Proceedings of the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021.

[C34] R. Salhab, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Social learning with sparse belief samples," in Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2020.

​[C33] C. Hsu, A. Ajorlou, M. Yildiz, and A. Jadbabaie, "Information disclosure and network formation in news subscription services," in Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2020.

[C32] M. Siami, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Competitive contagion with sparse seeding," in Proceedings of the 8th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, 2019.

[C31] A. Ajorlou and A. Jadbabaie, "A class of near-optimal local minima for Witsenhausen's problem," in Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019.
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[C30] A. Ajorlou, A. Jadbabaie, and M Dahleh, "Dynamic public learning in networks of strategic agents: the role of inter/intra-community ties," in Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2017.

[C29] A. Ajorlou and A. Jadbabaie, "A game theoretic approach to promotion design in two-sided platforms," in Proceedings of the 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2017.

[C28] A. Ajorlou and A. Jadbabaie, "Slopey quantizers are locally optimal for Witsenhausen's counterexample," in Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2016.

[C27] A. Ajorlou and A. Jadbabaie, "Equilibrium analysis for a leader-follower game with noisy observations: A pace forward in Witsenhausen’s counterexample conjecture," in Proceedings of the 54th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2016.

[C26] A. Fazeli, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Duopoly budget allocation in social networks: a Nash analysis approach," in Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2015, pp. 2901-2906.

[C25] A. Fazeli, A. Ajorlou, and A. Jadbabaie, "Optimal budget allocation: quality or seeding?," in Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2014, pp. 4455-4460.

[C24] A. Ajorlou, A. Kakhbod, and A. Jadbabaie, "Strategic information diffusion: spread vs. exploit," in Proceedings of the joint Workshop on Pricing and Incentives in Networks and Systems (W-PIN+NetEcon in conjunction with ACM Sigmetrics), 2014.

[C23] M. M. Asadi, A. Ajorlou, A. G. Aghdam, and S. Blouin, "Global network connectivity assessment via local data exchange for underwater acoustic sensor networks," in Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Reliable and Convergent Systems, 2013, pp. 277-282.

[C22] A. Ajorlou, M. M. Asadi, A. G. Aghdam, and S. Blouin, "A consensus control strategy for unicycles in the presence of disturbances," in Proceedings of American Control Conference, 2013, pp. 4039-4043.

[C21] M. A. Rahimian, A. Ajorlou, R. Tutunov, and A. G. Aghdam, "Identifiability of links and nodes in multi-agent systems under the agreement protocol,"  in Proceedings of American Control Conference, 2013, pp. 6853-6858.

[C20] M. M. Asadi, A. Ajorlou,  and A. G. Aghdam, "Distributed control of multi-agent systems with rotating field of view," in Proceedings of   American Control Conference, 2013, pp. 2044-2049.

[C19] A. Ajorlou and A. G. Aghdam, "A bounded connectivity preserving aggregation strategy with collision avoidance property for single-integrator agents," in Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2012, pp. 4003-4008.

[C18] M. A. Rahimian, A. Ajorlou, and A. G. Aghdam, "Detectability of multiple link failures in multi-agent systems under the agreement protocol," in Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2012, pp. 118-123.

[C17] M. Tousi, A. Ajorlou, H. Mahboubi, and A. G. Aghdam, "Decentralized pole-placement using generalized sampled-data hold functions," in Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2012, pp. 6921-6925.

[C16] A. Ajorlou, A. G. Aghdam, and A. Jadbabaie, "A connectivity preserving containment control strategy for unicycles with static leaders," in Proceedings of American Control Conference, 2012, pp. 4186-4191.

[C15] A. Ajorlou and A. G. Aghdam, "Convergence analysis for a class of bounded distributed connectivity preserving consensus algorithms for unicycles," in Proceedings of American Control Conference, 2012, pp. 1585-1590.

[C14] M. A. Rahimian, A. Ajorlou, and A. G. Aghdam, "Characterization of link failures in multi-agent systems under the agreement protocol," in Proceedings of American Control Conference, 2012, pp. 5258-5263.

[C13] M. M. Asadi, A. Ajorlou, and A. G. Aghdam, "Cooperative control of multi-agent systems with limited angular field of view," in Proceedings of American Control Conference, 2012, pp. 2388-2393.

[C12] F. Salehisadaghiani, A. Ajorlou, and A. G. Aghdam, "Distributed connectivity preservation of a team of single integrator agents subject to measurement error," in Proceedings of IEEE Multiconference on Systems & Control, 2011, pp. 626-631.

[C11] A. Ajorlou, A. Momeni, and A. G. Aghdam, "A connectivity preserving containment control strategy for a network of single integrator agents," in Proceedings of American Control Conference, 2011, pp. 499-501.

[C10] A. Ajorlou, A. Momeni, and A. G. Aghdam, "Relaxed convergence conditions for multi-agent systems under a class of consensus algorithms," in Proceedings of American Control Conference, 2011, pp. 2795-2800.

[C9] S. Jafari, A. Ajorlou, and A. G. Aghdam, "Leader selection in multi-agent systems subject to partial failure," in Proceedings of American Control Conference, 2011, pp. 5330-5335.

[C8] A. Ajorlou and A. G. Aghdam, "A class of bounded distributed controllers for connectivity preservation of unicycles," in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2010, pp. 3072-3077.

[C7] A. Ajorlou, K. Moezzi, A. G. Aghdam, and S. G. Nersesov, "Two-stage time-optimal formation reconfiguration strategy under velocity and acceleration constraints," in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2010, pp. 7455-7460.

[C6] S. Jafari, A. Ajorlou, and A. G. Aghdam, "On the structural controllability of multi-agent systems subject to failure: A graph-theoretic approach," in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2010, pp. 4564-4570.

[C5] S. Jafari, A. Ajorlou, and A. G. Aghdam, "Distributed control of formation flying spacecraft using deterministic communication schedulers," in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2010, pp. 3084-3090.

[C4] A. Ajorlou, A. Momeni, and A. G. Aghdam, "Convergence analysis for a class of nonlinear consensus algorithms," in Proceedings of American Control Conference, 2010, pp. 6318-6323.

[C3] A. Ajorlou, A. Momeni, and A. G. Aghdam, "Connectivity preservation in a network of single integrator agents," in Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009, pp. 7061-7067.

[C2] A. Ajorlou, K. Moezzi, A. G. Aghdam, and S. Tafazoli, "Energy and time efficient formation reconfiguration strategies," in Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009, pp. 3081-3086.

[C1] S. Ajorlou and A. Ajorlou, "A fuzzy-based design procedure for a single-stage sampling plan," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2009, pp. 1869-1874.