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Temporally extended actions improve the ability to explore and plan in single-agent settings. In multi-agent settings, the exponential growth of the joint state space with the number of agents makes coordinated behaviours even more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Raul D. Steleac , Mohan Sridharan , David Abel

We study a decentralized dispatch coordination problem in a multi-agent supply chain setting with shared logistics capacity. We propose symmetric (identical) dispatch strategies for all agents, enabling efficient coordination without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sagar Sudhakara

This paper investigates the problem of cooperative tuning of multi-agent optimal control systems, where a network of agents (i.e. multiple coupled optimal control systems) adjusts parameters in their dynamics, objective functions, or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Zehui Lu , Wanxin Jin , Shaoshuai Mou , Brian D. O. Anderson

This paper presents a cloud-based learning model predictive controller that integrates three interacting components: a set of agents, which must learn to perform a finite set of tasks with the minimum possible local cost; a coordinator,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Paula Chanfreut , José María Maestre , Eduardo F. Camacho , Francesco Borrelli

Current multi-agent LLM frameworks rely on explicit orchestration patterns borrowed from human organizational structures: planners delegate to executors, managers coordinate workers, and hierarchical control flow governs agent interactions.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Roland Rodriguez

We propose a multi-agent system that enables groups of agents to collaborate and work autonomously to execute tasks. Groups can work in a decentralized manner and can adapt to dynamic changes in the environment. Groups of agents solve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Karishma , Shrisha Rao

Cloud computing is a new paradigm where data and services of Information Technology are provided via the Internet by using remote servers. It represents a new way of delivering computing resources allowing access to the network on demand.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Abdellah Idrissi , Faouzia Zegrari

Multiagent planning and coordination problems are common and known to be computationally hard. We show that a wide range of two-agent problems can be formulated as bilinear programs. We present a successive approximation algorithm that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Marek Petrik , Shlomo Zilberstein

We consider a probabilistic model for large-scale task allocation problems for multi-agent systems, aiming to determine an optimal deployment strategy that minimizes the overall transport cost. Specifically, we assign transportation agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Anqi Dong , Karl H. Johansson , Johan Karlsson

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

Multi-agent planning (MAP) approaches are typically oriented at solving loosely-coupled problems, being ineffective to deal with more complex, strongly-related problems. In most cases, agents work under complete information, building…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Alejandro Torreño , Eva Onaindia , Óscar Sapena

Distributed fog and edge applications communicate over unreliable networks and are subject to high communication delays. This makes using existing distributed coordination technologies from cloud applications infeasible, as they are built…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tobias Pfandzelter , Trever Schirmer , David Bermbach

This paper considers continuous-time coordination algorithms for networks of agents that seek to collectively solve a general class of nonsmooth convex optimization problems with an inherent distributed structure. Our algorithm design…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Simon K. Niederländer , Jorge Cortés

In this paper we develop a method for planning and coordinating a multi-agent team deployment to periodically gather information on demand. A static operation center (OC) periodically requests information from changing goal locations. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yaroslav Marchukov , Luis Montano

This paper presents a decentralized control framework for distribution matching in multi-agent systems (MAS), where agents collectively achieve a prescribed terminal spatial distribution. The problem is formulated using optimal transport…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Kooktae Lee

The goal of this paper is to provide a survey and application-focused atlas of collective behavior coordination algorithms for multi-agent systems. We survey the general family of collective behavior algorithms for multi-agent systems and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Federico Rossi , Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay , Michael T. Wolf , Marco Pavone

Spatial multi-agency has been receiving growing attention from researchers exploring many of the aspects and modalities of this phenomenon. The aim is to develop the theoretical background needed for a multitude of applications involving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Ahmad A. Masoud

Cloud resource allocation has emerged as a major challenge in modern computing environments, with organizations struggling to manage complex, dynamic workloads while optimizing performance and cost efficiency. Traditional heuristic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Deep Bodra , Sushil Khairnar

We introduce the concept of continuous transportation task to the context of multi-agent systems. A continuous transportation task is one in which a multi-agent team visits a number of fixed locations, picks up objects, and delivers them to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Chao Wang , Somchaya Liemhetcharat , Kian Hsiang Low

In this paper, we focus on the decentralized optimization problem over the Stiefel manifold, which is defined on a connected network of $d$ agents. The objective is an average of $d$ local functions, and each function is privately held by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Lei Wang , Xin Liu