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Social life clusters into groups held together by ties that also transmit information. When collective problems occur, group members use their ties to discuss what to do and to establish an agreement, to be reached quick enough to prevent…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-13 Jeroen Bruggeman

Collective decision making using simple social interactions has been studied in many types of multi-agent systems, including robot swarms and human social networks. However, existing multi-agent studies have rarely modeled the neural…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Nicolas Coucke , Mary Katherine Heinrich , Axel Cleeremans , Marco Dorigo , Guillaume Dumas

The constrained consensus problem considered in this paper, denoted interval consensus, is characterized by the fact that each agent can impose a lower and upper bound on the achievable consensus value. Such constraints can be encoded in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Angela Fontan , Guodong Shi , Xiaoming Hu , Claudio Altafini

We investigate the behavioral patterns of a population of agents, each controlled by a simple biologically motivated neural network model, when they are set in competition against each other in the Minority Model of Challet and Zhang. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph Wakeling , Per Bak

The voter model is an archetypal stochastic process that represents opinion dynamics. In each update, one agent is chosen uniformly at random. The selected agent then copies the current opinion of a randomly selected neighbour. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-20 Michael T. Gastner , Kota Ishida

We introduce a class of stochastic models for the dynamics of two linguistic variants that are competing to become the single, shared convention within an unstructured community of speakers. Different instances of the model are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-20 R. A. Blythe

Collective decision-making arises from individual agents integrating their own personal observations with information obtained from social partners. In many biological systems that exhibit collective decision-making, the process by which…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-28 Ling-Wei Kong , Naomi Ehrich Leonard , Andrew M. Hein

The present paper is devoted to the study of average consensus problems for undirected networks of dynamic agents having communication delays. The accent is put here on the study of the time-delays influence: both constant and time-varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Pierre-Alexandre Bliman , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

As multi-agent AI systems become more common, users increasingly encounter not a single AI voice but a collective one. This shift introduces social dynamics, such as consensus, dissent, and gradual convergence, that can trigger cognitive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Soohwan Lee , Kyungho Lee

We introduce a minimal model of multilevel selection on structured populations, considering the interplay between game theory and population dynamics. Through a bottleneck process, finite groups are formed with cooperators and defectors…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-02 Jeferson J. Arenzon , Luca Peliti

Conversations with non-player characters (NPCs) in games are typically confined to dialogue between a human player and a virtual agent, where the conversation is initiated and controlled by the player. To create richer, more believable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Hannah Morrison , Chris Martens

The paper introduces a model of collective behavior where agents receive information only from sufficiently dense crowds in their immediate vicinity. The system is an asymmetric, density-induced version of the Cucker-Smale model with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Piotr Minakowski , Piotr B. Mucha , Jan Peszek

We developed a statistical mechanics approach to the problem of opinion formation in interacting agents, constrained by a set of social rules, $B$. To provide the agents with an adaptive quality, we represented both the social agents and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-28 Juan Pablo Neirotti

For group-living animals, reaching consensus to stay cohesive is crucial for their fitness, particularly when collective motion starts and stops. Understanding the decision-making at individual and collective levels upon sudden disturbances…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Sylvain Toulet , Jacques Gautrais , Richard Bon , Fernando Peruani

Multi-agent models often describe populations segregated either in the physical space, i.e. subdivided in metapopulations, or in the ecology of opinions, i.e. partitioned in echo chambers. Here we show how the interplay between homophily…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-23 Michele Starnini , Mattia Frasca , Andrea Baronchelli

Given a connected region in two-dimensional space where events of a certain kind occur according to a certain time-varying density, we consider the problem of setting up a network of autonomous mobile agents to detect the occurrence of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Rodrigo R. Esch , Fábio Protti , Valmir C. Barbosa

In this paper, we study the continuous-time consensus problem in the presence of adversaries. The networked multi-agent system is modeled as a switched system, where the normal agents have integrator dynamics and the switching signal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Heath J. LeBlanc , Haotian Zhang , Shreyas Sundaram , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Assessing mobility in a thorough fashion is a crucial step toward more efficient mobile network design. Recent research on mobility has focused on two main points: analyzing models and studying their impact on data transport. These works…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vincent Borrel , Franck Legendre , Marcelo Dias de Amorim , Serge Fdida

Understanding the mechanisms behind emergent behaviors in multi-agent systems is critical for advancing fields such as swarm robotics and artificial intelligence. In this study, we investigate how neural networks evolve to control agents'…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-10-28 Guilherme S. Y. Giardini , John F. Hardy , Carlo R. da Cunha

In this paper, a novel two-level framework was proposed and applied to solve the output average consensus problem over heterogeneous multi-agent systems. This approach is mainly based on the recent technique of system abstraction. For given…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Yutao Tang