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In several smart city applications, multiple resources must be allocated among competing agents that are coupled through such shared resources and are constrained --- either through limitations of communication infrastructure or privacy…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Syed Eqbal Alam , Robert Shorten , Fabian Wirth , Jia Yuan Yu

Coordination between organizations on strategic, tactical and operation levels leads to more effective and efficient supply chains. Supply chain management is increasing day by day in modern enterprises. The environment is becoming…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-11-05 Ritu Sindhu , Abdul Wahid , G. N. Purohit

Collaborative logistics has been widely recognised as an effective avenue to reduce carbon emissions by enhanced truck utilisation and reduced travel distance. However, stakeholders' participation in collaborations is hindered by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Liming Xu , Stephen Mak , Stefan Schoepf , Michael Ostroumov , Alexandra Brintrup

New architectures and algorithms are needed to reflect the mixture of local and global information that is available as multi-agent systems connect over the cloud. We present a novel architecture for multi-agent coordination where the cloud…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Matthew Hale , Magnus Egerstedt

Communication could potentially be an effective way for multi-agent cooperation. However, information sharing among all agents or in predefined communication architectures that existing methods adopt can be problematic. When there is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Jiechuan Jiang , Zongqing Lu

Multi-agent reinforcement learning systems aim to provide interacting agents with the ability to collaboratively learn and adapt to the behaviour of other agents. In many real-world applications, the agents can only acquire a partial view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ozsel Kilinc , Giovanni Montana

Multiagent systems aim to accomplish highly complex learning tasks through decentralised consensus seeking dynamics and their use has garnered a great deal of attention in the signal processing and computational intelligence societies. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-20 Sayed Pouria Talebi , Danilo Mandic

This paper addresses the considerations that comes along with adopting decentralized communication for multi-agent localization applications in discrete state spaces. In this framework, we extend the original formulation of the Bayes…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Dom Huh , Prasant Mohapatra

In the artificial intelligence space, as we transition from isolated large language models to autonomous agents capable of complex reasoning and tool use. While foundational architectures and local context management protocols have been…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Naveen Kumar Krishnan

This brief addresses the distributed consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems under a general directed communication topology. Each agent is governed by higher-order dynamics with mismatched uncertainties, multiple completely…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gang Wang , Chaoli Wang , Zhengtao Ding , Yunfeng Ji

In this paper, we focus on the distributed quantized average consensus problem in open multi-agent systems consisting of communication links that change dynamically over time. Open multi-agent systems exhibiting the aforementioned…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Jiaqi Hu , Karl H. Johansson , Apostolos I. Rikos

Natural Immune system plays a vital role in the survival of the all living being. It provides a mechanism to defend itself from external predates making it consistent systems, capable of adapting itself for survival incase of changes. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-03-11 Tejbanta Singh Chingtham , G. Sahoo , M. K. Ghose

Connected and autonomous vehicles across land, water, and air must often operate in dynamic, unpredictable environments with limited communication, no centralized control, and partial observability. These real-world constraints pose…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hung Du , Hy Nguyen , Srikanth Thudumu , Rajesh Vasa , Kon Mouzakis

Autonomous agents represent an inevitable evolution of the internet. Current agent frameworks do not embed a standard protocol for agent-to-agent interaction, leaving existing agents isolated from their peers. As intellectual property is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Andrea Muttoni , Jason Zhao

This research article presents a novel architecture to empower multi-agent economies by addressing two critical limitations of the emerging Agent2Agent (A2A) communication protocol: decentralized agent discoverability and agent-to-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Awid Vaziry , Sandro Rodriguez Garzon , Axel Küpper

This paper proposes a novel policy for a group of agents to, individually as well as collectively, solve a multi armed bandit (MAB) problem. The policy relies solely on the information that an agent has obtained through sampling of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Pathmanathan Pankayaraj , D. H. S. Maithripala

One of the key challenges for multi-agent learning is scalability. In this paper, we introduce a technique for speeding up multi-agent learning by exploiting concurrent and incremental experience sharing. This solution adaptively identifies…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Dan Garant , Bruno da Silva , Victor Lesser , Chongjie Zhang

This article reviews recent advances in multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms for large-scale control systems and communication networks, which learn to communicate and cooperate. We provide an overview of this emerging field, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Donghwan Lee , Niao He , Parameswaran Kamalaruban , Volkan Cevher

While multi-agent interactions can be naturally modeled as a graph, the environment has traditionally been considered as a black box. We propose to create a shared agent-entity graph, where agents and environmental entities form vertices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Akshat Agarwal , Sumit Kumar , Katia Sycara

Collaboration is a fundamental and essential characteristic of many complex systems, ranging from ant colonies to human societies. Each component within a complex system interacts with others, even at a distance, to accomplish a given task.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mehdi Bakhshipoor , Yousef Azizi , Seyed Ehsan Nedaaee Oskoee