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In this paper we tackle the problem of routing multiple agents in a coordinated manner. This is a complex problem that has a wide range of applications in fleet management to achieve a common goal, such as mapping from a swarm of robots and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Quinlan Sykora , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated the adoption of agent-based workflows, where multiple autonomous agents reason, invoke functions, and collaborate to compose complex data pipelines. However, current…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zoi Kaoudi , Ioana Giurgiu

The fusion of the multi-agent paradigm with evolutionary computation yielded promising results in many optimization problems. Evolutionary multi-agent system (EMAS) are more similar to biological evolution than classical evolutionary…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-08-13 D. Krzywicki , W. Turek , A. Byrski , M. Kisiel-Dorohinicki

Accurate prediction of others' trajectories is essential for autonomous driving. Trajectory prediction is challenging because it requires reasoning about agents' past movements, social interactions among varying numbers and kinds of agents,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Tianyang Zhao , Yifei Xu , Mathew Monfort , Wongun Choi , Chris Baker , Yibiao Zhao , Yizhou Wang , Ying Nian Wu

Simple physical models based on fluid mechanics have long been used to understand the flow of vehicular traffic on freeways; analytically tractable models of flow on an urban grid, however, have not been as extensively explored. In an ideal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-10-21 Mark J Panaggio , Bertrand J Ottino-Löffler , Peiguang Hu , Daniel M Abrams

This paper addresses the design of an optimization-based cooperative path-following control law for multiple robotic vehicles that optimally balances the transient trade-off between coordination and path-following errors. To this end, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Andrea Alessandretti , A. Pedro Aguiar

Optimal management of traffic light timing is one of the most effective factors in reducing urban traffic. In most old systems, fixed timing was used along with human factors to control traffic, which is not very efficient in terms of time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mahdi Jamebozorg , Mohsen Hami , Sajjad Deh Deh Jani

We consider the distributed optimization problem for a multi-agent system. Here, multiple agents cooperatively optimize an objective by sharing information through a communication network and performing computations. In this tutorial, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

This paper introduces a comprehensive approach to optimize parking efficiency for connected and Automated vehicle (CAVs) fleets. We present a multi-vehicle parking simulator, equipped with hierarchical path planning and collision avoidance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Xu Shen , Yongkeun Choi , Alex Wong , Francesco Borrelli , Scott Moura , Soomin Woo

Many applications of computational fluid dynamics require multiple simulations of a flow under different input conditions. In this paper, a numerical algorithm is developed to efficiently determine a set of such simulations in which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Max Gunzburger , Nan Jiang , Zhu Wang

Traffic light timing optimization is still an active line of research despite the wealth of scientific literature on the topic, and the problem remains unsolved for any non-toy scenario. One of the key issues with traffic light optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Noe Casas

Efficient traffic signal control (TSC) has been one of the most useful ways for reducing urban road congestion. Key to the challenge of TSC includes 1) the essential of real-time signal decision, 2) the complexity in traffic dynamics, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Wanyuan Wang , Tianchi Qiao , Jinming Ma , Jiahui Jin , Zhibin Li , Weiwei Wu , Yichuan Jian

Diversification in a set of solutions has become a hot research topic in the evolutionary computation community. It has been proven beneficial for optimisation problems in several ways, such as computing a diverse set of high-quality…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Adel Nikfarjam , Amirhossein Moosavi , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

We investigate two representation alternatives for the controllers of teams of cyber agents. We combine these controller representations with different evolutionary algorithms, one of which introduces a novel LLM-supported mutation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Erik Hemberg , Eric Liu , Lucille Fuller , Stephen Moskal , Una-May O'Reilly

The growing demand for road use in urban areas has led to significant traffic congestion, posing challenges that are costly to mitigate through infrastructure expansion alone. As an alternative, optimizing existing traffic management…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Muhammad Tahir Rafique , Ahmed Mustafa , Hasan Sajid

This paper proposes an intelligent service optimization method based on a multi-agent collaborative evolution mechanism to address governance challenges in large-scale microservice architectures. These challenges include complex service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yilin Li , Song Han , Sibo Wang , Ming Wang , Renzi Meng

For a foreseeable future, autonomous vehicles (AVs) will operate in traffic together with human-driven vehicles. Their planning and control systems need extensive testing, including early-stage testing in simulations where the interactions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ran Tian , Nan Li , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Yildiray Yildiz , Anouck Girard

Traffic flow prediction plays an important role in Intelligent Transportation Systems in traffic management and urban planning. There have been extensive successful works in this area. However, these approaches focus only on modelling the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Li Shijiao , Ma Zhipeng , He Huajun , Chen Haiyue

Developing efficient traffic models is crucial for optimizing modern transportation systems. However, current modeling approaches remain labor-intensive and prone to human errors due to their dependence on manual workflows. These processes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Xusen Guo , Xinxi Yang , Mingxing Peng , Hongliang Lu , Meixin Zhu , Hai Yang

The theory of urban traffic flow has been developed and new types of meta-automata have emerged and simulate realistic traffic conditions relatively well. Among these models, the brake light model can simulate the three-phase traffic flow…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Rui Shen