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This paper presents an online adaptive learning solution to optimal synchronization control problem of heterogeneous multi-agent systems via a novel distributed policy iteration approach.

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Yuanqiang Zhou , Dewei Li , Furong Gao

Many real-world multi-agent systems exhibit nonlinear dynamics and complex inter-agent interactions. As these systems increase in scale, the main challenges arise from achieving scalability and handling nonconvexity. To address these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Taehyun Yoon , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Partially Controlled Multi-Agent Systems (PCMAS) are comprised of controllable agents, managed by a system designer, and uncontrollable agents, operating autonomously. This study addresses an optimal composition design problem in PCMAS,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Kyeonghyeon Park , David Molina Concha , Hyun-Rok Lee , Chi-Guhn Lee , Taesik Lee

We investigate the optimization of synchronizability in multiplex networks and demonstrate that the interlayer coupling strength is the deciding factor for the efficiency of optimization. The optimized networks have homogeneity in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-26 Sanjiv K. Dwivedi , Camellia Sarkar , Sarika Jalan

In this technical note we consider a class of multi-agent network systems that we refer to as Open Multi-Agent Systems (OMAS): in these multi-agent systems, an indefinite number of agents may join or leave the network at any time. Focusing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Mauro Franceschelli , Paolo Frasca

This paper addresses analytical aspects of deterministic, continuous-time dynamical systems defined on networks. The goal is to model and analyze certain phenomena which must be framed beyond the context of networked dynamical systems,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Ricardo Riaza

This paper addresses the problem of collaboratively satisfying long-term spatial constraints in multi-agent systems. Each agent is subject to spatial constraints, expressed as inequalities, which may depend on the positions of other agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Farhad Mehdifar , Mani H. Dhullipalla , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

For general networks of pulse-coupled oscillators, including regular, random, and more complex networks, we develop an exact stability analysis of synchronous states. As opposed to conventional stability analysis, here stability is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Marc Timme , Fred Wolf , Theo Geisel

Mutual Coupling (MC) is an unavoidable feature in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) with sub-wavelength inter-element spacing. Its inherent presence naturally leads to non-local RIS structures, which can be efficiently described…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Dilki Wijekoon , Amine Mezghani , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ekram Hossain

In this paper, we consider the canonical water network design problem, which contains nonconvex potential loss functions and discrete resistance choices with varying costs. Traditionally, to resolve the nonconvexities of this problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Byron Tasseff , Russell Bent , Marina A. Epelman , Donatella Pasqualini , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Optimization problems in process engineering, including design and operation, can often pose challenges to many solvers: multi-modal, non-smooth, and discontinuous models often with large computational requirements. In such cases, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Eric S. Fraga , Veerawat Udomvorakulchai , Miguel Pineda , Lazaros G. Papageorgiou

We consider the problem of resource allocation and control of multihop networks in which multiple source-destination pairs communicate confidential messages, to be kept confidential from the intermediate nodes. We pose the problem as that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Yunus Sarikaya , C. Emre Koksal , Ozgur Ercetin

Multi-agent systems cooperation to achieve global goals is usually limited by sensing, actuation, and communication issues. At the local level, continuous measurement and actuation is only approximated by the use of digital mechanisms that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Eloy Garcia , Yongcan Cao , David W. Casbeer

The problem of the real-time multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) array control when requirements on capacity performance, out-of-cell interference, and computational efficiency are simultaneously enforced is addressed by means of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-29 G. Oliveri , G. Gottardi , N. Anselmi , A. Massa

Pixel antenna is a promising technology to enhance the wireless communication data rate by adaptively reconfiguring each antenna's radiation pattern via a so-called antenna coding technique which controls the states of switches connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shenrui Lin , Shuowen Zhang

This paper studies the sum throughput of the {multi-user} multiple-input-single-output (MISO) networks in the cases with large but finite number of transmit antennas and users. Considering continuous and bursty communication scenarios with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Behrooz Makki , Tommy Svensson , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We consider cooperative multi-agent consensus optimization problems over both static and time-varying communication networks, where only local communications are allowed. The objective is to minimize the sum of agent-specific possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Necdet Serhat Aybat

Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly used to perform complex, multi-step workflows in regulated settings such as compliance and due diligence. However, many agentic architectures rely primarily on prompt engineering of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ananya Joshi , Michael Rudow

Oscillation synchronization phenomenon is widely observed in natural systems through frequency modulated signals, especially in biological neural networks. Frequency modulation is also one of most widely used technologies in engineering.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Zhiyong Chen

Time-discrete dynamical systems on a finite state space have been used with great success to model natural and engineered systems such as biological networks, social networks, and engineered control systems. They have the advantage of being…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Alan Veliz-Cuba , Reinhard Laubenbacher