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We present a principled and efficient planning algorithm for collaborative multiagent dynamical systems. All computation, during both the planning and the execution phases, is distributed among the agents; each agent only needs to model and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Carlos E. Guestrin , Geoffrey Gordon

Countries with access to large bodies of water often aim to protect their maritime transport by employing maritime surveillance systems. However, the number of available sensors (e.g., cameras) is typically small compared to the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Bach Long Nguyen , Anh-Dzung Doan , Tat-Jun Chin , Christophe Guettier , Surabhi Gupta , Estelle Parra , Ian Reid , Markus Wagner

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is the problem of moving agents to the goal vertex without collision. In the online MAPF problem, new agents may be added to the environment at any time, and the current agents have no information about…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Mingkai Tang , Boyi Liu , Yuanhang Li , Hongji Liu , Ming Liu , Lujia Wang

As global tourism expands and artificial intelligence technology advances, intelligent travel planning services have emerged as a significant research focus. Within dynamic real-world travel scenarios with multi-dimensional constraints,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Aili Chen , Xuyang Ge , Ziquan Fu , Yanghua Xiao , Jiangjie Chen

Multi-agent routing problems have gained significant attention recently due to their wide range of industrial applications, ranging from logistics warehouse automation to indoor service robots. Conventionally, they are modeled as classical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Fengming Zhu , Fangzhen Lin

We survey recent advances in algorithms for route planning in transportation networks. For road networks, we show that one can compute driving directions in milliseconds or less even at continental scale. A variety of techniques provide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Hannah Bast , Daniel Delling , Andrew Goldberg , Matthias Müller-Hannemann , Thomas Pajor , Peter Sanders , Dorothea Wagner , Renato F. Werneck

One of the main operational challenges faced by the operators of one-way car-sharing systems is to ensure vehicle availability across the regions of the service areas with uneven patterns of rental requests. Fleet balancing strategies are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Riccardo Iacobucci , Raffaele Bruno , Chiara Boldrini

This paper addresses the problem of collaboratively satisfying long-term spatial constraints in multi-agent systems. Each agent is subject to spatial constraints, expressed as inequalities, which may depend on the positions of other agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Farhad Mehdifar , Mani H. Dhullipalla , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Solving a collision-aware multi-agent mission planning (task allocation and path finding) problem is challenging due to the requirement of real-time computational performance, scalability, and capability of handling static/dynamic obstacles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Zehui Lu , Tianyu Zhou , Shaoshuai Mou

We present a multi-scale forward search algorithm for distributed agents to solve single-query shortest path planning problems. Each agent first builds a representation of its own search space of the common environment as a multi-resolution…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Jaein Lim , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Autonomous mobility on demand systems, though still in their infancy, have very promising prospects in providing urban population with sustainable and safe personal mobility in the near future. While much research has been conducted on both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Wen Shen , Cristina Lopes

This paper addresses the task of joint multi-agent perception and planning, especially as it relates to the real-world challenge of collision-free navigation for connected self-driving vehicles. For this task, several communication-enabled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Nathaniel Moore Glaser , Zsolt Kira

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable advancements in reasoning and tool use, they often fail to generate optimal, grounded solutions under complex constraints. Real-world travel planning exemplifies these challenges,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jihye Choi , Jinsung Yoon , Jiefeng Chen , Somesh Jha , Tomas Pfister

One of the key challenges for multi-agent learning is scalability. In this paper, we introduce a technique for speeding up multi-agent learning by exploiting concurrent and incremental experience sharing. This solution adaptively identifies…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Dan Garant , Bruno da Silva , Victor Lesser , Chongjie Zhang

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims at finding non-conflicting paths for multiple agents from their respective sources to destinations. This problem arises in multiple real-life situations, including robot motion planning and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Aditi Anand , Dildar Ali , Suman Banerjee

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics, requiring the computation of collision-free paths for multiple agents moving from their respective start to goal positions. Coordinating multiple agents in a shared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jinhao Liang , Jacob K. Christopher , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto

By starting with the assumption that motion is fundamentally a decision making problem, we use the world-line concept from Special Relativity as the inspiration for a novel multi-agent path planning method. We have identified a particular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Vismay Modi , Yixin Chen , Abhishek Madan , Shinjiro Sueda , David I. W. Levin

This paper proposes a novel planning framework to handle a multi-agent pathfinding problem under team-connected communication constraint, where all agents must have a connected communication channel to the rest of the team during their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hoang-Dung Bui , Erion Plaku , Gregoy J. Stein

We consider a general problem where an agent is in a multi-agent environment and must plan for herself without any prior information about her opponents. At each moment, this pivotal agent is faced with a trade-off between exploiting her…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Fengming Zhu , Fangzhen Lin

Agent-based modeling approaches represent the state-of-art in modeling travel demand and transportation system dynamics and are valuable tools for transportation planning. However, established agent-based approaches in transportation rely…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Tianming Liu , Jirong Yang , Yafeng Yin