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In this paper, we consider the partial gathering problem of mobile agents in synchronous dynamic bidirectional ring networks. When k agents are distributed in the network, the partial gathering problem requires, for a given positive integer…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Masahiro Shibata , Yuichi Sudo , Junya Nakamura , Yonghwan Kim

A team consisting of an unknown number of mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an unknown network, possibly at different times, have to meet at the same node. Agents are anonymous (identical), execute the same deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Yoann Dieudonné , Andrzej Pelc

Several mobile agents, modelled as deterministic automata, navigate in an infinite line in synchronous rounds. All agents start in the same round. In each round, an agent can move to one of the two neighboring nodes, or stay idle. Agents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Younan Gao , Andrzej Pelc

A team consisting of an unknown number of mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an unknown network, have to meet at the same node and terminate. This problem is known as {\em gathering}. We study deterministic gathering algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Andrzej Pelc

The gathering problem requires a set of mobile agents, arbitrarily positioned at different nodes of a network to group within finite time at the same location, not fixed in advanced. The extensive existing literature on this problem shares…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Linda Pagli , Giuseppe Prencipe , Nicola Santoro , Giovanni Viglietta

We study the gathering problem to make multiple agents initially scattered in arbitrary networks gather at a single node. There exist $k$ agents with unique identifiers (IDs) in the network, and $f$ of them are weakly Byzantine agents,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jion Hirose , Junya Nakamura , Fukuhito Ooshita , Michiko Inoue

A team of mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an unknown network, possibly at different times, have to meet at the same node and declare that they have all met. Agents have different labels and move in synchronous rounds along…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Sébastien Bouchard , Yoann Dieudonné , Andrzej Pelc

We study the gathering problem requiring a team of mobile agents to gather at a single node in arbitrary networks. The team consists of $k$ agents with unique identifiers (IDs), and $f$ of them are weakly Byzantine agents, which behave…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jion Hirose , Junya Nakamura , Fukuhito Ooshita , Michiko Inoue

The gathering over meeting nodes problem asks the robots to gather at one of the pre-defined meeting nodes. The robots are deployed on the nodes of an anonymous two-dimensional infinite grid which has a subset of nodes marked as meeting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Subhash Bhagat , Abhinav Chakraborty , Bibhuti Das , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

We examine the problem of gathering $k \geq 2$ agents (or multi-agent rendezvous) in dynamic graphs which may change in every synchronous round but remain always connected ($1$-interval connectivity) [KLO10]. The agents are identical and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Othon Michail , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos

A team of mobile agents, starting from distinct nodes of a network, have to meet at the same node and declare that they all met. Agents execute the same algorithm, which they start when activated by an adversary or by an agent entering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Stéphane Devismes , Yoann Dieudonné , Arnaud Labourel

Gathering is a fundamental task for multi-agent systems and the problem has been studied under various assumptions on the sensing capabilities of mobile agents. This paper addresses the problem for a group of agents that are identical and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Ariel Barel , Thomas Dagès , Rotem Manor , Alfred M. Bruckstein

The problem of gathering multiple mobile robots to a single location, is one of the fundamental problems in distributed coordination between autonomous robots. The problem has been studied and solved even for robots that are anonymous,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Zohir Bouzid , Shantanu Das , Sébastien Tixeuil

The gathering over meeting nodes problem requires the robots to gather at one of the pre-defined meeting nodes. This paper investigates the problem with respect to the objective function that minimizes the total number of moves made by all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Subhash Bhagat , Abhinav Chakraborty , Bibhuti Das , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

We investigate gathering algorithms for asynchronous autonomous mobile robots moving in uniform ring-shaped networks. Different from most work using the Look-Compute-Move (LCM) model, we assume that robots have limited visibility and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Sayaka Kamei , Anissa Lamani , Fukuhito Ooshita , Sébastien Tixeuil , Koichi Wada

Over the years, much research involving mobile computational entities has been performed. From modeling actual microscopic (and smaller) robots, to modeling software processes on a network, many important problems have been studied in this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Anisur Rahaman Molla , Kaushik Mondal , William K. Moses

RecentadvancesinDistributedComputinghighlightmodelsandalgo- rithms for autonomous swarms of mobile robots that self-organize and cooperate to solve global objectives. The overwhelming majority of works so far considers handmade algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Laure Millet , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Nathalie Sznajder , Sébastien Tixeuil

We study the Gathering problem for n autonomous mobile robots in semi-synchronous settings with persistent memory called light. It is well known that Gathering is impossible in a basic model when robots have no lights, if the system is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Satoshi Terai , Koichi Wada , Yoshiaki Katayama

A team of anonymous mobile agents represented by points freely moving in the plane have to gather at a single point and stop. Agents start at different points of the plane and at possibly different times chosen by the adversary. They are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Andrzej Pelc , Ram Narayan Yadav

We study the \emph{Byzantine} gathering problem involving $k$ mobile agents with unique identifiers (IDs), $f$ of which are Byzantine. These agents start the execution of a common algorithm from (possibly different) nodes in an $n$-node…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jion Hirose , Ryota Eguchi , Yuichi Sudo
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