In today’s society, it is becoming more important to efficiently solve the problem of the resources management, whose availability is increasing in a decentralized way, i.e. in remote but still connected places.

The interest on this subject is strongly motivated by the many applications related to it, which include management of large-scale energy resources, water and other (Smart Grids) [1], management of distributed measurement systems, traffic control, and more generally in the paradigm of Smart Cities [2], as well as in production systems, for example in the control of petrochemical processes, in control of multi-vehicle systems, management of complex biological systems.

This research aims to study and develop general methodologies, and applicative techniques which may derive from them, in order to solve the problem of managing resources in a context in which, as a result of the new social organizations and global production, demand and supply of a good or service are increasingly distributed. This problem can be faced from different points of view. This research will focus on those developing areas which are characterized by technological innovation (e.g., smart city, smart mobility) or on those sectors which strongly require efficient supervision and control to improve the quality of the product or of the service while reducing the cost of production (e.g., industrial processes with large delocalized outputs, or in the living environment where multiple independent smart objects are required to interact with each other).