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It has been repeatedly reported that the collective dynamics of social insects exhibit universal emergent properties similar to other complex systems. In this note, we study a previously published data set in which the positions of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-30 Ivan Shpurov , Tom Froese , Dante R. Chialvo

Minimalistic robot swarms offer a scalable, robust, and cost-effective approach to performing complex tasks with the potential to transform applications in healthcare, disaster response, and environmental monitoring. However, coordinating…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Raina Zakir , Timoteo Carletti , Marco Dorigo , Andreagiovanni Reina

Honeypots are deception systems that emulate vulnerable services to collect threat intelligence. While deploying many honeypots increases the opportunity to observe attacker behaviour, in practise network and computational resources limit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Federico Mirra , Matteo Boffa , Idilio Drago , Danilo Giordano , Marco Mellia

This study proposes a distributed algorithm that makes agents' adaptive grouping entrap multiple targets via automatic decision making, smooth flocking, and well-distributed entrapping. Agents make their own decisions about which targets to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Chen Wang , Minqiang Gu , Wenxi Kuang , Dongliang Wang , Weicheng Luo , Zhaohui Shi , Zhun Fan

We study a social network consisting of agents organized as a hierarchical M-ary rooted tree, common in enterprise and military organizational structures. The goal is to aggregate information to solve a binary hypothesis testing problem.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Zhenliang Zhang , Edwin K. P. Chong , Ali Pezeshki , William Moran , Stephen D. Howard

Both humans and social animals live in groups and are frequently faced to choose between options with different qualities. When no leader agents are controlling the group decision, consensus can be achieved through repeated interactions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-02 Thierry Njougouo , Andreagiovanni Reina , Elio Tuci , Timoteo Carletti

Achieving consensus via nearest neighbor rules is an important prerequisite for multi-agent networks to accomplish collective tasks. A common assumption in consensus setup is that each agent interacts with all its neighbors. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Haibin Shao , Lulu Pan , Mehran Mesbahi , Yugeng Xi , Dewei Li

Recent papers have introduced the Motivation Dynamics framework, which uses bifurcations to encode decision-making behavior in an autonomous mobile agent. In this paper, we consider the multi-agent extension of the Motivation Dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Craig Thompson , Paul Reverdy

Natural, social, and artificial multi-agent systems usually operate in dynamic environments, where the ability to respond to changing circumstances is a crucial feature. An effective collective response requires suitable information…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-09-29 David Mateo , Nikolaj Horsevad , Vahid Hassani , Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Roland Bouffanais

We examine the tuning of cooperative behavior in repeated multi-agent games using an analytically tractable, continuous-time, nonlinear model of opinion dynamics. Each modeled agent updates its real-valued opinion about each available…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-24 Shinkyu Park , Anastasia Bizyaeva , Mari Kawakatsu , Alessio Franci , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Collective decision-making is a widespread phenomenon in both biological and artificial systems, where individuals reach a consensus through social interactions. While traditional models of opinion dynamics and contagion focus on pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-02 David March-Pons , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , M. Carmen Miguel

The dynamics of decisions in complex networks is studied within a Markov process framework using numerical simulations combined with mathematical insight into the process mechanisms. A mathematical discrete-time model is derived based on a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-01 Carlos Rodríguez Lucatero , Luis Alarcón , Roberto Bernal Jaquez , Alexander Schaum

We study the design of decision-making mechanism for resource allocations over a multi-agent system in a dynamic environment. Agents' privately observed preference over resources evolves over time and the population is dynamic due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Tao Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

An emerging challenge in swarm shepherding research is to design effective and efficient artificial intelligence algorithms that maintain a low-computational ceiling while increasing the swarm's abilities to operate in diverse contexts. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Adam Hepworth , Aya Hussein , Darryn Reid , Hussein Abbass

Multi-agent shepherding represents a challenging distributed control problem where herder agents must coordinate to guide independently moving targets to desired spatial configurations. Most existing control strategies assume cohesive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Italo Napolitano , Stefano Covone , Andrea Lama , Francesco De Lellis , Mario di Bernardo

Active inference helps us simulate adaptive behavior and decision-making in biological and artificial agents. Building on our previous work exploring the relationship between active inference, well-being, resilience, and sustainability, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Mahault Albarracin , Ines Hipolito , Maria Raffa , Paul Kinghorn

Swarm intelligence is all about developing collective behaviours to solve complex, ill-structured and large-scale problems. Efficiency in collective behaviours depends on how to harmonise the individual contributions so that a complementary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Muharrem Düğenci

Recommendation systems face challenges in dynamically adapting to evolving user preferences and interactions within complex social networks. Traditional approaches often fail to account for the intricate interactions within cyber-social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Abdelsadeq Elfergany , Ammar Adl , Mohammed Kayed

This paper introduces a novel bio-mimetic approach for distributed control of robotic swarms, inspired by the collective behaviors of swarms in nature such as schools of fish and flocks of birds. The agents are assumed to have limited…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yigal Koifman , Ariel Barel , Alfred M. Bruckstein

Adaptive networks are well-suited to perform decentralized information processing and optimization tasks and to model various types of self-organized and complex behavior encountered in nature. Adaptive networks consist of a collection of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Ali H. Sayed