Michael C. Zargham

Publications

Categories and order follow the CV (October 2026). Titles link to the version of record where there is one, otherwise to a preprint or repository. Newest first within each category.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. A. Clark, A. Mihailov, M. Zargham. “Complex Systems Modeling of Community Inclusion Currencies.” Computational Economics 64(2):1259–1294, 2024. Earlier version: WU working paper series.
  2. E. Rennie, M. Zargham, J. Tan, L. Miller, J. Abbott, K. Nabben, P. De Filippi. “Toward a Participatory Digital Ethnography of Blockchain Governance.” Qualitative Inquiry 28(7):837–847, 2022.
  3. K. Nabben, M. Zargham. “Permissionlessness.” Internet Policy Review 11(2), 2022.
  4. H. M. Kim, M. Laskowski, M. Zargham, H. Turesson, M. Barlin, D. Kabanov. “Token Economics in Real Life: Cryptocurrency and Incentives Design for Insolar's Blockchain Network.” IEEE Computer 54(1):70–80, 2021.
  5. F. Fritsch, J. Emmett, E. Friedman, R. Kranjc, S. Manski, M. Zargham, M. Bauwens. “Challenges and Approaches to Scaling the Global Commons.” Frontiers in Blockchain 4:578721, 2021.
  6. Z. Zhang, M. Zargham, V. M. Preciado. “On Modeling Blockchain-Enabled Economic Networks as Stochastic Dynamical Systems.” Applied Network Science 5(1):19, 2020.
  7. M. Zargham, A. Ribeiro, A. Ozdaglar, A. Jadbabaie. “Accelerated Dual Descent for Network Flow Optimization.” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 59(4):905–920, 2014.
  8. V. M. Preciado, M. Zargham, C. Enyioha, A. Jadbabaie, G. J. Pappas. “Optimal Resource Allocation for Network Protection Against Spreading Processes.” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 1(1):99–108, 2014.

Refereed conference proceedings

  1. M. Zargham. “Derivations, Not Just Simulations: Teaching Applied Mathematics with Scientific Python.” Proceedings of the 25th Python in Science Conference (SciPy 2026), forthcoming. Talk: video, slides.
  2. M. Zargham. “Formalizing Document Assurance: A Topological Framework for Verification, Validation, and Human Accountability.” INCOSE International Symposium 36(1):1501–1514, 2026.
  3. E. Rennie, K. Nabben, M. Zargham, J. Potts, B. A. Coco, L. Miller, M. Green. “Building the Loop: The Role of Ethnography in Artificial Organisational Intelligence.” Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings 2025(1):223–235.
  4. K. Nabben, M. Zargham. “The Ethnography of a ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ (DAO): De-mystifying Algorithmic Systems.” Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings 2022(1):74–97.
  5. M. Zargham, K. Paruch, J. Shorish. “Economic Games as Estimators.” Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE 2020), Springer, pp. 125–142. Earlier version: WU working paper series, 2020.
  6. M. Zargham, J. Shorish, K. Paruch. “From Curved Bonding to Configuration Spaces.” IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2020. Earlier version: WU working paper series, 2019.
  7. R. Tutunov, M. Zargham, A. Jadbabaie. “On Convergence Rate of Accelerated Dual Descent Algorithm.” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 179–184, 2014.
  8. M. Zargham, A. Ribeiro, A. Jadbabaie. “Discounted Integral Priority Routing for Data Networks.” IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 1993–1998, 2014.
  9. M. Zargham, V. M. Preciado. “Worst-Case Scenarios for Greedy, Centrality-Based Network Protection Strategies.” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2014.
  10. V. M. Preciado, M. Zargham, D. Sun. “A Convex Framework to Control Spreading Processes in Directed Networks.” CISS, 2014.
  11. V. M. Preciado, M. Zargham, C. Enyioha, A. Jadbabaie, G. Pappas. “Optimal Vaccine Allocation to Control Epidemic Outbreaks in Arbitrary Networks.” IEEE CDC, pp. 7486–7491, 2013.
  12. M. Zargham, A. Ribeiro, A. Jadbabaie. “Accelerated Dual Descent for Constrained Convex Network Flow Optimization.” IEEE CDC, pp. 1037–1042, 2013.
  13. M. Zargham, A. Ribeiro, A. Jadbabaie. “Accelerated Backpressure Algorithm.” IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 2269–2275, 2013.
  14. V. M. Preciado, M. Zargham. “Traffic Optimization to Control Epidemic Outbreaks in Metapopulation Models.” IEEE GlobalSIP, pp. 847–850, 2013.
  15. M. Zargham, A. Ribeiro, A. Jadbabaie. “Network Optimization under Uncertainty.” IEEE CDC, pp. 7470–7475, 2012.
  16. J. Oh, M. Zargham, X. Su, A. Jadbabaie. “Game Theoretic Analysis of Customer Subscription Decisions in Networks with Positive Externality.” IEEE CDC, pp. 2678–2683, 2012.
  17. M. Zargham, A. Ribeiro, A. Jadbabaie. “A Distributed Line Search for Network Optimization.” American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 472–477, 2012.
  18. E. Wei, M. Zargham, A. Ozdaglar, A. Jadbabaie. “On Dual Convergence of the Distributed Newton Method for Network Utility Maximization.” IEEE CDC-ECC, 2011.
  19. A. Jadbabaie, A. Ozdaglar, M. Zargham. “A Distributed Newton Method for Network Optimization.” IEEE CDC, 2009.

Book chapters

  1. M. Zargham, I. Ben-Meir. “Protocols and Institutions.” In Cryptoeconomic Theory, World Scientific, 2026, pp. 157–179.
  2. V. M. Preciado, M. Zargham, C. Enyioha, C. Nowzari, S. Han, M. Ogura, et al. “Bio-inspired Framework for Allocation of Protection Resources in Cyber-Physical Networks.” In Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Working papers and preprints

  1. J. K. Hollek, M. Zargham, M. Kumar. “Ontology-Based Contextual AI Evaluations (OB-CAIE) Methodology.” arXiv:2610.00529, 2026.
  2. N. Schneider, K. Nabben, R. Tamari, M. Zargham. “Online Governance Surfaces and Attention Economies.” OSF Preprints, 2025.
  3. D. Sisson, K. Nabben, I. Ben-Meir, M. Zargham. “Data Mesh Architecture: Interoperability, Co-Operation, and Co-Regulation.” SSRN, 2024.
  4. D. Lessa Bernardineli, I. Ben-Meir, M. Zargham, J. Hackel. “Min-Maxing Complexity on Digital Infrastructure Mechanisms through Occam's Razor and Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety.” SSRN 4865894, 2024.
  5. K. Nabben, H. Wang, M. Zargham. “Decentralised Governance for Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems.” arXiv:2407.13566, 2024.
  6. J. Tan, T. Merk, S. Hubbard, et al. (incl. M. Zargham). “Open Problems in DAOs.” arXiv:2310.19201, 2023.
  7. M. Zargham, I. Ben-Meir. “Method for Functional Decomposition of Organizations and Their Environments.” SSRN 4606672, 2023.
  8. M. Zargham, J. Shorish. “Block Diagrams for Categorical Cybernetics.” SSRN 4569037, 2023.
  9. M. Zargham, E. Alston, K. Nabben, I. Ben-Meir. “What Constitutes a Constitution?” Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.10609125, 2023.
  10. M. Zargham, J. Shorish. “Generalized Dynamical Systems Part I: Foundations.” Working Paper Series, Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics, WU Vienna, 2022.
  11. J. Shorish, M. Stephenson, M. Zargham. “A Practical Theory of Fungibility.” Working Paper Series, Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics, WU Vienna, 2021.
  12. M. Laskowski, M. Zargham, H. Turesson, M. Barlin, D. Kabanov, E. Dhaliwal. “Evidence Based Decision Making in Blockchain Economic Systems: From Theory to Practice.” arXiv:2001.03020, 2020.
  13. S. Voshmgir, M. Zargham. “Foundations of Cryptoeconomic Systems.” Working Paper Series No. 1, Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics, WU Vienna, 2019.
  14. M. Zargham, Z. Zhang, V. M. Preciado. “A State-Space Modeling Framework for Engineering Blockchain-Enabled Economic Systems.” arXiv:1807.00955, 2018.

Other scholarly outputs