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Coordinating multi-agent systems over spatially distributed areas requires solving a complex hierarchical problem: first distributing areas among agents (allocation) and subsequently determining the optimal visitation order (routing).…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yazan Youssef , Aboelmagd Noureldin , Sidney Givigi

Society has become more dependent on automated intelligent systems, at the same time, these systems have become more and more complicated. Society's expectation regarding the capabilities and intelligence of such systems has also grown. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Cristina Turcu , Cornel Turcu

Real-world infrastructure planning increasingly involves strategic interactions among autonomous agents competing over congestible, limited resources. Applications such as Electric Vehicle (EV) charging, emergency response, and intelligent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Niloofar Aminikalibar , Farzaneh Farhadi , Maria Chli

Multi-agent planning (MAP) approaches have been typically conceived for independent or loosely-coupled problems to enhance the benefits of distributed planning between autonomous agents as solving this type of problems require less…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Alejandro Torreño , Eva Onaindia , Óscar Sapena

In recent years, a significant research effort has been devoted to the design of distributed protocols for the control of multi-agent systems, as the scale and limited communication bandwidth characteristic of such systems render…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Rohit Konda , Rahul Chandan , Jason R. Marden

In this article, we propose a centralized Multi-Agent Learning framework for learning a policy that models the simultaneous behavior of multiple agents that need to coordinate to solve a certain task. Centralized approaches often suffer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ángel Aso-Mollar , Eva Onaindia

This paper explores multi-agent systems and identify challenges that remain inadequately addressed. By leveraging the diverse capabilities and roles of individual agents, multi-agent systems can tackle complex tasks through agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Shanshan Han , Qifan Zhang , Weizhao Jin , Zhaozhuo Xu

We present our approach to the problem of how an agent, within an economic Multi-Agent System, can determine when it should behave strategically (i.e. learn and use models of other agents), and when it should act as a simple price-taker. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jose M. Vidal , Edmund H. Durfee

As Large Language Model (LLM) based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) evolve from experimental pilots to complex, persistent ecosystems, the limitations of direct agent-to-agent communication have become increasingly apparent. Current architectures…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Charles Fleming , Guillaume De Saint Marc , Ramana Kompella , Peter Bosch , Vijoy Pandey

In this paper, a novel intelligent method based on a multi-agent system (MAS) is applied to the problem of optimal sizing in a stand-alone office complex microgrid such that the electricity demand of the office building and the charging…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Soheil Mohseni , Seyed Masoud Moghaddas-Tafreshi

This paper considers the problem of autonomous multi-agent cooperative target search in an unknown environment using a decentralized framework under a no-communication scenario. The targets are considered as static targets and the agents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Titas Bera , Rajarshi Bardhan , Sundaram Suresh

A wide range of applications require or can benefit from collaborative behavior of a group of agents. The technical challenge addressed in this chapter is the development of a decentralized control strategy that enables each agent to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Zhen Kan , John M. Shea , Warren E. Dixon

Cooperative information shared among a multi-agent system (MAS) can be useful to agents to efficiently fulfill their missions. Relying on wrong information, however, can have severe consequences. While classical approaches only consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-23 Johannes Müller , Tobias Meuser , Ralf Steinmetz , Michael Buchholz

In this paper, multi-agent systems minimizing a sum of objective functions, where each component is only known to a particular node, is considered for continuous-time dynamics with time-varying interconnection topologies. Assuming that each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson , Yiguang Hong

We introduce world-centered multi-agent systems (WMAS) as an alternative to traditional agent-centered architectures, arguing that structured domains such as enterprises and institutional systems require a shared, explicit world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Andrei Mantsivoda , Darya Gavrilina

This paper examines the event-triggered consensus of the multi-agent system on matrix-weighted networks, where the interdependencies among higher-dimensional states of neighboring agents are characterized by matrix-weighted edges in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Lulu Pan , Haibin Shao , Dewei Li , Lin Liu

Effective coordination and cooperation among agents are crucial for accomplishing individual or shared objectives in multi-agent systems. In many real-world multi-agent systems, agents possess varying abilities and constraints, making it…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yasin Findik , Paul Robinette , Kshitij Jerath , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh

Since their inception, Multi Agent Systems (MASs) have been championed as a solution for the increasing problem of software complexity. Communities of distributed autonomous computing entities that are capable of collaborating, negotiating…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-11-08 David J. Lillis

This paper presents the overall design of a multi-agent framework for tuning the performance of an application executing in a distributed environment. The multi-agent framework provides services like resource brokering, analyzing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-05-13 Sarbani Roy , Saikat Halder , Nandini Mukherjee

Due to the dynamic and unpredictable open-world setting, navigating complex environments in Minecraft poses significant challenges for multi-agent systems. Agents must interact with the environment and coordinate their actions with other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zhonghan Zhao , Kewei Chen , Dongxu Guo , Wenhao Chai , Tian Ye , Yanting Zhang , Gaoang Wang