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Everyday tasks are characterized by their varieties and variations, and frequently are not clearly specified to service agents. This paper presents a comprehensive approach to enable a service agent to deal with everyday tasks in open,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Hao Yang , Tavan Eftekhar , Chad Esselink , Yan Ding , Shiqi Zhang

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have demonstrated significant effectiveness in addressing complex problems through coordinated collaboration among heterogeneous agents. However, real-world environments and task specifications are inherently…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xinkui Zhao , Yifan Zhang , Sai Liu , Naibo Wang , Guanjie Cheng , Yueshen Xu , Chang Liu , Shuiguang Deng , Jianwei Yin

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

Multi-agent systems (MASs) have pushed the boundaries of large language model (LLM) agents in domains such as web research and software engineering. However, long-horizon, multi-constraint planning tasks involve conditioning on detailed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Tianyue Ou , Saujas Vaduguru , Daniel Fried

Cooperation is fundamental in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), often requiring agents to balance individual gains with collective rewards. In this regard, this paper aims to investigate strategies to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Vaigarai Sathi , Sabahat Shaik , Jaswanth Nidamanuri

Proper initialization is crucial for any system, particularly in multi-agent systems (MAS), where it plays a pivotal role in determining both the system's efficiency and effectiveness. However, existing MAS initialization methods do not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Chunhao Tian , Yutong Wang , Xuebo Liu , Zhexuan Wang , Liang Ding , Miao Zhang , Min Zhang

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) built on large language models typically solve complex tasks by coordinating multiple agents through workflows. Existing approaches generates workflows either at task level or query level, but their relative costs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zixu Wang , Bingbing Xu , Yige Yuan , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

We review a body of recent work by the author and collaborators on controlling the spatial organisation of large agent populations across multiple scales. A central theme is the systematic bridging of microscopic agent-level dynamics and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Mario di Bernardo

Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. Agent-Based Simulation (ABS), one way of using intelligent agents, carries great potential for progressing our understanding of management practices and how…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Peer-Olaf Siebers , Uwe Aickelin , Helen Celia , Chris Clegg

Large Language Model-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have shown remarkable progress in solving complex tasks through collaborative reasoning and inter-agent critique. However, existing approaches typically treat each task in isolation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yilong Li , Chen Qian , Yu Xia , Ruijie Shi , Yufan Dang , Zihao Xie , Ziming You , Weize Chen , Cheng Yang , Weichuan Liu , Ye Tian , Xuantang Xiong , Lei Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

We are interested in the problem of multiagent systems development for risk detecting and emergency response in an uncertain and partially perceived environment. The evaluation of the current situation passes by three stages inside the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Fahem Kebair , Frédéric Serin , Cyrille Bertelle

We revisit the formalism of modular interpreted systems (MIS) which encourages modular and open modeling of synchronous multi-agent systems. The original formulation of MIS did not live entirely up to its promise. In this paper, we propose…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Wojciech Jamroga , Artur Mȩski , Maciej Szreter

In this paper, a novel intelligent method based on a multi-agent system (MAS) is applied to the problem of optimal sizing in a stand-alone office complex microgrid such that the electricity demand of the office building and the charging…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Soheil Mohseni , Seyed Masoud Moghaddas-Tafreshi

Individual business processes have been changing since the Internet was created, and they are now oriented towards a more distributed and collaborative business model, in an e-commerce environment that adapts itself to the competitive and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Carlos R. Jaimez-González , Wulfrano A. Luna-Ramírez

Active-passive multiagent systems consist of agents subject to inputs (active agents) and agents with no inputs (passive agents), where active and passive agent roles are considered to be interchangeable in order to capture a wide array of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Ehsan Arabi , Dimitra Panagou , Tansel Yucelen

Multi-agent systems (MAS) need to adaptively cope with dynamic environments, changing agent populations, and diverse tasks. However, most of the multi-agent systems cannot easily handle them, due to the complexity of the state and task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Qian Long , Fangwei Zhong , Mingdong Wu , Yizhou Wang , Song-Chun Zhu

Multi-agent language systems are often built as hand-designed workflows, where agents are assigned semantic roles and communication protocols are specified in advance. We propose NeuroMAS, a method that first treats a multi-agent language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haoran Lu , Luyang Fang , Wenxuan Zhong , Ping Ma

Multi-agent approach has become popular in computer science and technology. However, the conventional models of multi-agent and multicomponent systems implicitly or explicitly assume existence of absolute time or even do not include time in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Mark Burgin

This work introduces a general multi-level model for self-adaptive systems. A self-adaptive system is seen as composed by two levels: the lower level describing the actual behaviour of the system and the upper level accounting for the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Emanuela Merelli , Nicola Paoletti , Luca Tesei

Intelligent sports video analysis demands a comprehensive understanding of temporal context, from micro-level actions to macro-level game strategies. Existing end-to-end models often struggle with this temporal hierarchy, offering solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Tsz-To Wong , Ching-Chun Huang , Hong-Han Shuai