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We study the task of Byzantine gathering in a network modeled as a graph. Despite the presence of Byzantine agents, all the other (good) agents, starting from possibly different nodes and applying the same deterministic algorithm, have to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Sébastien Bouchard , Yoann Dieudonné , Anissa Lamani

We study the gathering problem to make multiple agents initially scattered in arbitrary networks gather at a single node. There exist $k$ agents with unique identifiers (IDs) in the network, and $f$ of them are weakly Byzantine agents,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jion Hirose , Junya Nakamura , Fukuhito Ooshita , Michiko Inoue

In this paper, we revisit the problem of classical \textit{meeting times} of random walks in graphs. In the process that two tokens (called agents) perform random walks on an undirected graph, the meeting times are defined as the expected…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Ryota Eguchi , Fukuhito Ooshita , Michiko Inoue , Sébastien Tixeuil

We investigate two fundamental problems in mobile computing: exploration and rendezvous, with two distinct mobile agents in an unknown graph. The agents may communicate by reading and writing information on whiteboards that are located at…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Romain Cosson

Treasure hunt and rendezvous are fundamental tasks performed by mobile agents in graphs. In treasure hunt, an agent has to find an inert target (called treasure) situated at an unknown node of the graph. In rendezvous, two agents, initially…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Debasish Pattanayak , Andrzej Pelc

We study the self-stabilizing leader election problem in anonymous $n$-nodes networks. Achieving self-stabilization with low space memory complexity is particularly challenging, and designing space-optimal leader election algorithms remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Lelia Blin , Sylvain Gay , Isabella Ziccardi

Leader election is one of the fundamental problems in distributed computing: a single node, called the leader, must be specified. This task can be formulated either in a weak way, where one node outputs 'leader' and all other nodes output…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Barun Gorain , Avery Miller , Andrzej Pelc

Two mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an unknown network, have to meet at the same node. Agents move in synchronous rounds using a deterministic algorithm. Each agent has a different label, which it can use in the execution of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Jérémie Chalopin , Yoann Dieudonné , Arnaud Labourel , Andrzej Pelc

A variety of problems in distributed control involve a networked system of autonomous agents cooperating to carry out some complex task in a decentralized fashion, e.g., orienting a flock of drones, or aggregating data from a network of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Patrick Lambein-Monette

In the field of swarm robotics, one of the most studied problem is Gathering. It asks for a distributed algorithm that brings the robots to a common location, not known in advance. We consider the case of robots constrained to move along…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Serafino Cicerone , Alessia Di Fonso , Gabriele Di Stefano , Alfredo Navarra

We consider the following problem - a group of mobile agents perform some task on a terrain modeled as a graph. In a given moment of time an adversary gets an access to the graph and positions of the agents. Shortly before adversary's…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Karol Gotfryd , Marek Klonowski , Dominik Pająk

We study the problem of rendezvous of two mobile agents starting at distinct locations in an unknown graph. The agents have distinct labels and walk in synchronous steps. However the graph is unlabelled and the agents have no means of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-12 Shantanu Das , Dariusz Dereniowski , Adrian Kosowski , Przemyslaw Uznanski

Consider a system of autonomous mobile robots initially randomly deployed on the nodes of an anonymous finite grid. A gathering algorithm is a sequence of moves to be executed independently by each robot so that all robots meet at a single…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Kaustav Bose , Ranendu Adhikary , Sruti Gan Chaudhuri , Buddhadeb Sau

The population protocol model is a computational model for passive mobile agents. We address the leader election problem, which determines a unique leader on arbitrary communication graphs starting from any configuration. Unfortunately,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Haruki Kanaya , Ryota Eguchi , Taisho Sasada , Michiko Inoue

In the leader-follower approach, one or more agents are selected as leaders who do not change their states or have autonomous dynamics and can influence other agents, while the other agents, called followers, perform a simple protocol based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Natalia Basimova , Pavel Chebotarev

The problem of gathering multiple mobile robots to a single location, is one of the fundamental problems in distributed coordination between autonomous robots. The problem has been studied and solved even for robots that are anonymous,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Zohir Bouzid , Shantanu Das , Sébastien Tixeuil

In this paper we study the Near-Gathering problem for a finite set of dimensionless, deterministic, asynchronous, anonymous, oblivious and autonomous mobile robots with limited visibility moving in the Euclidean plane in Look-Compute-Move…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Linda Pagli , Giuseppe Prencipe , Giovanni Viglietta

We introduce the problem of adaptive self-organization in which the nodes of an anonymous, synchronous dynamic network must distributively change the collective distribution of their responses (or "colors") as a function of time-varying…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Garrett Parzych , Joshua J. Daymude

In this paper, we look at the problem of randomized leader election in synchronous distributed networks with a special focus on the message complexity. We provide an algorithm that solves the implicit version of leader election (where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Seth Gilbert , Peter Robinson , Suman Sourav

In a rendezvous task, some mobile agents dispersed in a network have to gather at an arbitrary common site. We consider the rendezvous problem on the infinite labeled line, with $2$ agents, without communication, and a synchronous notion of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yann Bourreau , Ananth Narayanan , Alexandre Nolin