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Suppose that a set of $m$ tasks are to be shared as equally as possible amongst a set of $n$ resources. A game-theoretic mechanism to find a suitable allocation is to associate each task with a ``selfish agent'', and require each agent to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Petra Berenbrink , Tom Friedetzky , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Paul Goldberg , Zengjian Hu , Russell Martin

This paper addresses the task allocation problem for multi-robot systems. The main issue with the task allocation problem is inherent complexity that makes finding an optimal solution within a reasonable time almost impossible. To hand the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Hyo-Sang Shin , Teng Li , Pau Segui-Gasco

In this work, we consider the problem of autonomous racing with multiple agents where agents must interact closely and influence each other to compete. We model interactions among agents through a game-theoretical framework and propose an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Yixuan Jia , Maulik Bhatt , Negar Mehr

We study the problem of achieving decentralized coordination by a group of strategic decision makers choosing to engage or not in a task in a stochastic setting. First, we define a class of symmetric utility games that encompass a broad…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Behrouz Touri

Most offline RL algorithms return optimal policies but do not provide statistical guarantees on desirable behaviors. This could generate reliability issues in safety-critical applications, such as in some multiagent domains where agents,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Edoardo Zorzi , Alberto Castellini , Leonidas Bakopoulos , Georgios Chalkiadakis , Alessandro Farinelli

This paper studies the optimal resource allocation problem within a multi-agent network composed of both autonomous agents and humans. The main challenge lies in the globally coupled constraints that link the decisions of autonomous agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Yichen Yao , Ryan Mbagna Nanko , Yue Wang , Xuan Wang

The formal study of coalition formation in multi-agent systems is typically realized in the framework of hedonic games, which originate from economic theory. The main focus of this branch of research has been on the existence and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Felix Brandt , Martin Bullinger , Anaëlle Wilczynski

Distributed Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking problem for multi-coalition games has attracted increasing attention in recent years, but the research mainly focuses on the case without agreement demand within coalitions. This paper considers a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Jialing Zhou , Yuezu Lv , Guanghui Wen , Jinhu Lv , Dezhi Zheng

We propose a multi-agent system that enables groups of agents to collaborate and work autonomously to execute tasks. Groups can work in a decentralized manner and can adapt to dynamic changes in the environment. Groups of agents solve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Karishma , Shrisha Rao

We investigate a multi-agent decision-making problem where a large population of agents is responsible for carrying out a set of assigned tasks. The amount of jobs in each task varies over time governed by a dynamical system model. Each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Shinkyu Park , Julian Barreiro-Gomez

We consider multi-agent decision making where each agent's cost function depends on all agents' strategies. We propose a distributed algorithm to learn a Nash equilibrium, whereby each agent uses only obtained values of her cost function at…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour

Collaboration may be understood as the execution of coordinated tasks (in the most general sense) by groups of users, who cooperate for achieving a common goal. Collaboration is a fundamental assumption and requirement for the correct…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-26 Agustín Santos Méndez , Antonio Fernández Anta , Luis López Fernández

Congestion games are popular models often used to study the system-level inefficiencies caused by selfish agents, typically measured by the price of anarchy. One may expect that aligning the agents' preferences with the system-level…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Bryce L Ferguson , Dario Paccagnan , Bary S R Pradelski , Jason R Marden

Coordination is a desirable feature in multi-agent systems, allowing the execution of tasks that would be impossible by individual agents. We study coordination by a team of strategic agents choosing to undertake one of the multiple tasks.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Yi Wei , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

Additively separable hedonic games and fractional hedonic games have received considerable attention. They are coalition forming games of selfish agents based on their mutual preferences. Most of the work in the literature characterizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Michele Flammini , Gianpiero Monaco , Qiang Zhang

We consider a scenario in which leaders are required to recruit teams of followers. Each leader cannot recruit all followers, but interaction is constrained according to a bipartite network. The objective for each leader is to reach a state…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Lorenzo Coviello , Massimo Franceschetti

The emergence of new communication technologies allows us to expand our understanding of distributed control and consider collaborative decision-making paradigms. With collaborative algorithms, certain local decision-making entities (or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Bryce L. Ferguson , Dario Paccagnan , Bary S. R. Pradelski , Jason R. Marden

Consider a dynamic task allocation problem, where tasks are unknowingly distributed over an environment. This paper considers each task comprised of two sequential subtasks: detection and completion, where each subtask can only be carried…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Mehdi Dadvar , Saeed Moazami , Harley R. Myler , Hassan Zargarzadeh

We consider a cooperative multi-agent system consisting of a team of agents with decentralized information. Our focus is on the design of symmetric (i.e. identical) strategies for the agents in order to optimize a finite horizon team…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Sagar Sudhakara , Ashutosh Nayyar

We investigate asynchronous distributed algorithms with delayed information for seeking generalized Nash equilibrium over multi-agent networks. The considered game model has all players' local decisions coupled with a shared affine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Peng Yi , Lacra Pavel