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Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are adopted and tested with many complex and critical industrial applications, which are required to be adaptive, scalable, context-aware, and include real-time constraints. Industrial Control Networks (ICN) are…

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This paper deals with motion planning for multiple agents by representing the problem as a simultaneous optimization of every agent's trajectory. Each trajectory is considered as a sample from a one-dimensional continuous-time Gaussian…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Luka Petrović , Ivan Marković , Marija Seder

Modern supply networks are complex interconnected systems. Multi-agent models are increasingly explored to optimise their performance. Most research assumes agents will have full observability of the system by having a single policy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Wan Wang , Haiyan Wang , Adam Sobey

Inventory management is a fundamental challenge in supply chain management. The challenge is compounded when the associated products have unpredictable demands. This study proposes an innovative optimization approach combining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Sarit Maitra

Achieving a balance of supply and demand in a multi-agent system with many individual self-interested and rational agents that act as suppliers and consumers is a natural problem in a variety of real-life domains---smart power grids, data…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Kamal Chaturvedi , Jia Yuan Yu , Shrisha Rao

The application of LLM-based agents in financial investment has shown significant promise, yet existing approaches often require intermediate steps like predicting individual stock movements or rely on predefined, static workflows. These…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Taian Guo , Haiyang Shen , JinSheng Huang , Zhengyang Mao , Junyu Luo , Binqi Chen , Zhuoru Chen , Luchen Liu , Bingyu Xia , Xuhui Liu , Yun Ma , Ming Zhang

Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. Agent-Based Simulation (ABS), one way of using intelligent agents, carries great potential for progressing our understanding of management practices and how…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Peer-Olaf Siebers , Uwe Aickelin , Helen Celia , Chris Clegg

Big data analytics on geographically distributed datasets (across data centers or clusters) has been attracting increasing interests from both academia and industry, but also significantly complicates the system and algorithm designs. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Peng Zhao , Shusen Yang , Xinyu Yang , Wei Yu , Jie Lin

We tackle online inventory problems where at each time period the manager makes a replenishment decision based on partial historical information in order to meet demands and minimize costs. To solve such problems, we build upon recent works…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Massil Hihat , Adeline Fermanian

One of the challenges in optimization of high dimensional problems is finding appropriate solutions in a way that are as close as possible to the global optima. In this regard, one of the most common phenomena that occurs is the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Somayeh Seifi Shalamzari , Mojtaba Banifakhr

Recent advancements in predictive machine learning has led to its application in various use cases in manufacturing. Most research focused on maximising predictive accuracy without addressing the uncertainty associated with it. While…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Bang Xiang Yong , Alexandra Brintrup

Supply Chain coordination has become a critical success factor for Supply Chain management (SCM) and effectively improving the performance of organizations in various industries. Companies are increasingly located at the intersection of one…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-15 Benaissa Ezzeddine , Benabdelhafid Abdellatif , Benaissa Mounir

Multi-agent systems (MAS) utilizing multiple Large Language Model agents with Retrieval Augmented Generation and that can execute code locally may become beneficial in cosmological data analysis. Here, we illustrate a first small step…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Andrew Laverick , Kristen Surrao , Inigo Zubeldia , Boris Bolliet , Miles Cranmer , Antony Lewis , Blake Sherwin , Julien Lesgourgues

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data collection systems with different multiple access schemes, where a rotary-wing UAV is dispatched to collect data from multiple ground nodes (GNs). Our goal is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Zhiguo Ding

In multi-agent applications such as surveillance and logistics, fleets of mobile agents are often expected to coordinate and safely visit a large number of goal locations as efficiently as possible. The multi-agent planning problem in these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

The present volatile global market is marked by a rising need for extensively tailored products. Flourishing in such an environment necessitates fostering a more intimate connection between market requirements and the manufacturing system,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Muhammad Waseem , Qing Chang

Many real-world resource allocation systems, such as humanitarian logistics and vaccine distribution, must preposition limited supply across multiple locations before demand is realized while stockouts incur irreversible service losses. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Davin Choo , Mengchu Yue , Milind Tambe

Supply chains (SCs), complex networks spanning from raw material acquisition to product delivery, with enterprises as interconnected nodes, play a pivotal role in organizational success. However, optimizing SCs remains challenging,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Shenghan Gao , Junye Wang , Junjie Xiong , Yun Jiang , Yun Fang , Qifan Hu , Baolong Liu , Quan Li

Supply chain planning is the critical process of anticipating future demand and coordinating operational activities across the logistics network. However, within the context of contemporary e-commerce, traditional planning paradigms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jiaheng Yin , Yongzhi Qi , Jianshen Zhang , Dongyang Geng , Zhengyu Chen , Hao Hu , Wei Qi , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

The majority of multi-agent system (MAS) implementations aim to optimise agents' policies with respect to a single objective, despite the fact that many real-world problem domains are inherently multi-objective in nature. Multi-objective…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Roxana Rădulescu , Patrick Mannion , Diederik M. Roijers , Ann Nowé