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In this short note, we discuss the basic approach to computational modeling of dynamical systems. If a dynamical system contains multiple time scales, ranging from very fast to slow, computational solution of the dynamical system can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Johan Jansson , Claes Johnson , Anders Logg

Taking agent-based models (ABM) closer to the data is an open challenge. This paper explicitly tackles parameter space exploration and calibration of ABMs combining supervised machine-learning and intelligent sampling to build a surrogate…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2017-04-07 Francesco Lamperti , Andrea Roventini , Amir Sani

This paper studies self-sustained dynamic multiagent systems (MAS) for decentralized resource allocation operating at a competitive equilibrium over a finite horizon. The utility of resource consumption, along with the income from resource…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Zeinab Salehi , Yijun Chen , Ian R. Petersen , Elizabeth L. Ratnam , Guodong Shi

Many advances in research regarding immuno-interactions with cancer were developed with the help of ordinary differential equation (ODE) models. These models, however, are not effectively capable of representing problems involving…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Grazziela P. Figueredo , Peer-Olaf Siebers , Uwe Aickelin

Multi-agent systems are often limited in terms of persistenceand scalability. This issue is more prevalent for applications inwhich agent states changes frequently. This makes the existingmethods less usable as they increase the agent's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Nauman Khalid , Ghalib Ahmed Tahir , Peter Bloodsworth

The Agent Based Model community has a rich and diverse ecosystem of libraries, platforms, and applications to help modelers develop rigorous simulations. Despite this robust and diverse ecosystem, the complexity of life from microbial…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Thomas Pike , Samantha Golden , Daniel Lowdermilk , Brandon Luong , Benjamin Rosado

We provide a numerical study of the macroscopic model of [3] derived from an agent-based model for a system of particles interacting through a dynamical network of links. Assuming that the network remodelling process is very fast, the…

In recent times, various distributed optimization algorithms have been proposed for whose specific agent dynamics global optimality and convergence is proven. However, there exist no general conditions for the design of such algorithms. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Pol Jane-Soneira , Charles Muller , Felix Strehle , Sören Hohmann

We study a large-scale patrol problem with state-dependent costs and multi-agent coordination.We consider heterogeneous agents, rather general reward functions, and the capabilities of tracking agents' trajectories.Given the complexity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Jing Fu , Zengfu Wang , Jie Chen

There is a class of problems that exhibit smooth behavior on macroscopic scales, where only a microscopic evolution law is known. Patch dynamics scheme of `equation-free multiscale modelling' is one of the techniques, which aims to extract…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-17 T. K. Karmakar , D. C. Dalal

The rapidly growing field of network analytics requires data sets for use in evaluation. Real world data often lack truth and simulated data lack narrative fidelity or statistical generality. This paper presents a novel, mixed-membership,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-09 Garrett Bernstein , Kyle O'Brien

We consider finite and infinite horizon dynamic programming problems, where the control at each stage consists of several distinct decisions, each one made by one of several agents. We introduce an approach, whereby at every stage, each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Dimitri Bertsekas

This paper presents an analytical treatment of economic systems with an arbitrary number of agents that keeps track of the systems' interactions and agents' complexity. This formalism does not seek to aggregate agents. It rather replaces…

General Economics · Economics 2018-10-18 Aïleen Lotz , Pierre Gosselin , Marc Wambst

Adapting production-level computer vision tools to bespoke scientific datasets is a critical "last mile" bottleneck. Current solutions are impractical: fine-tuning requires large annotated datasets scientists often lack, while manual code…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xuefei , Wang , Kai A. Horstmann , Ethan Lin , Jonathan Chen , Alexander R. Farhang , Sophia Stiles , Atharva Sehgal , Jonathan Light , David Van Valen , Yisong Yue , Jennifer J. Sun

Dynamic Scene Graphs (DSGs) provide a structured representation of hierarchical, interconnected environments, but current approaches struggle to capture stochastic dynamics, partial observability, and multi-agent activity. These aspects are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Lars Ohnemus , Nils Hantke , Max Weißer , Kai Furmans

In a deterministic world, a planning agent can be certain of the consequences of its planned sequence of actions. Not so, however, in dynamic, stochastic domains where Markov decision processes are commonly used. Unfortunately these suffer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Jiri Baum , Ann E. Nicholson , Trevor I. Dix

Agent-based models (ABM) are gaining traction as one of the most powerful modelling tools within the social sciences. They are particularly suited to simulating complex systems. Despite many methodological advances within ABM, one of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Le-Minh Kieu , Nicolas Malleson , Alison Heppenstall

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a principal approach for studying complex systems. By decomposing a system into simpler, interacting agents, agent-based modeling (ABM) allows researchers to observe the emergence of complex phenomena.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Siddharth Chaturvedi , Ahmed El-Gazzar , Marcel van Gerven

In this paper we introduce a class of stochastic population models based on "patch dynamics". The size of the patch may be varied, and this allows one to quantify the departures of these stochastic models from various mean field theories,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-11 A. J. McKane , T. J. Newman

Recent advances in large language models have sparked growing interest in AI agents capable of solving complex, real-world tasks. However, most existing agent systems rely on manually crafted configurations that remain static after…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jinyuan Fang , Yanwen Peng , Xi Zhang , Yingxu Wang , Xinhao Yi , Guibin Zhang , Yi Xu , Bin Wu , Siwei Liu , Zihao Li , Zhaochun Ren , Nikos Aletras , Xi Wang , Han Zhou , Zaiqiao Meng