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Many multi-agent coordination problems can be represented as DCOPs. Motivated by task allocation in disaster response, we extend standard DCOP models to consider uncertain task rewards where the outcome of completing a task depends on its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Feng Wu , Nicholas R. Jennings

Asymmetric Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (ADCOPs) have emerged as an important formalism in multi-agent community due to their ability to capture personal preferences. However, the existing search-based complete algorithms…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yanchen Deng , Ziyu Chen , Dingding Chen , Xingqiong Jiang , Qiang Li

A number of problems in relational Artificial Intelligence can be viewed as Stochastic Constraint Optimization Problems (SCOPs). These are constraint optimization problems that involve objectives or constraints with a stochastic component.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Anna L. D. Latour , Behrouz Babaki , Siegfried Nijssen

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are an important framework for modeling coordinated decision-making problems in multi-agent systems with a set of discrete variables. Later works have extended DCOPs to model problems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Saaduddin Mahmud , Md. Mosaddek Khan , Moumita Choudhury , Long Tran-Thanh , Nicholas R. Jennings

In recent years, several studies proposed privacy-preserving algorithms for solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs). All of those studies assumed that agents do not collude. In this study we propose the first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Tamir Tassa , Tal Grinshpoun , Avishay Yanai

Multi-agent systems (MAS) is able to characterize the behavior of individual agent and the interaction between agents. Thus, it motivates us to leverage the distributed constraint optimization problem (DCOP), a framework of modeling MAS, to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Peibo Duan , Guoqiang Mao , Changsheng Zhang , Bin Zhang

High percentage penetrations of renewable energy generations introduce significant uncertainty into power systems. It requires grid operators to solve alternative current optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problems more frequently for economical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Xiang Pan , Minghua Chen , Tianyu Zhao , Steven H. Low

In scenarios with numerous emergencies that arise and require the assistance of various rescue units (e.g., medical, fire, \& police forces), the rescue units would ideally be allocated quickly and distributedly while aiming to minimize…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Maya Lavie , Tehila Caspi , Omer Lev , Roei Zivan

Belief propagation approaches, such as Max-Sum and its variants, are a kind of important methods to solve large-scale Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs). However, for problems with n-ary constraints, these algorithms face…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Ziyu Chen , Xingqiong Jiang , Yanchen Deng , Dingding Chen , Zhongshi He

When multiple self-adaptive systems share the same environment and have common goals, they may coordinate their adaptations at runtime to avoid conflicts and to satisfy their goals. There are two approaches to coordination. (1) Logically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Paul-Andrei Dragan , Andreas Metzger , Klaus Pohl

In this paper we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving linear programming problems subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Roland Bouffanais

Search and inference are two main strategies for optimally solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs). Recently, several algorithms were proposed to combine their advantages. Unfortunately, such algorithms only use an…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Dingding Chen , Yanchen Deng , Ziyu Chen , Wenxing Zhang , Zhongshi He

In this paper, we consider distributed optimization problems where the goal is to minimize a sum of objective functions over a multi-agent network. We focus on the case when the inter-agent communication is described by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Chenguang Xi , Ran Xin , Usman A. Khan

Solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) is a challenging task. While many practical algorithms have been developed to tackle CMOPs, real-world scenarios often present cases where the constraint functions are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Weixiong Huang , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Sheng Qi , Ling Wang

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) offer a powerful framework for multi-agent coordination but often rely on labor-intensive, manual problem construction. To address this, we introduce VL-DCOPs, a framework that takes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Saaduddin Mahmud , Dorian Benhamou Goldfajn , Shlomo Zilberstein

We develop DeepOPF as a Deep Neural Network (DNN) approach for solving security-constrained direct current optimal power flow (SC-DCOPF) problems, which are critical for reliable and cost-effective power system operation.DeepOPF is inspired…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Xiang Pan , Tianyu Zhao , Minghua Chen , Shengyu Zhang

Dynamic constrained optimization problems (DCOPs) have gained researchers attention in recent years because a vast majority of real world problems change over time. There are studies about the effect of constrained handling techniques in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Maria-Yaneli Ameca-Alducin , Maryam Hasani-Shoreh , Wilson Blaikie , Frank Neumann , Efren Mezura-Montes

Computing the exact optimal experimental design has been a longstanding challenge in various scientific fields. This problem, when formulated using a specific information function, becomes a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP)…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-30 Ling Liang , Haizhao Yang

MB-DPOP is an important complete algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) by exploiting a cycle-cut idea to implement memory-bounded inference. However, each cluster root in the algorithm is responsible for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Ziyu Chen , Wenxin Zhang , Yanchen Deng , Dingding Chen , Qing Li

Point matching refers to the process of finding spatial transformation and correspondences between two sets of points. In this paper, we focus on the case that there is only partial overlap between two point sets. Following the approach of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Wei Lian , Lei Zhang