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Agentic AI systems capable of autonomous planning and extended environmental interaction pose a fundamental control problem: how can humans maintain meaningful oversight of systems that may exceed their own capabilities? Existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 William Overman , Mohsen Bayati

Purpose: The development of metaheuristic algorithms has increased by researchers to use them extensively in the field of business, science, and engineering. One of the common metaheuristic optimization algorithms is called Grey Wolf…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Hardi M. Mohammed , Zrar Kh. Abdul , Tarik A. Rashid , Abeer Alsadoon , Nebojsa Bacanin

A model of an Ant System where ants are controlled by a spiking neural circuit and a second order pheromone mechanism in a foraging task is presented. A neural circuit is trained for individual ants and subsequently the ants are exposed to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Cristian Jimenez-Romero , David Sousa-Rodrigues , Jeffrey H. Johnson , Vitorino Ramos

Collaborative problem solving (CPS) enables student groups to complete learning tasks, construct knowledge, and solve problems. Previous research has argued the importance to examine the complexity of CPS, including its multimodality,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Fan Ouyang , Weiqi Xu , Mutlu Cukurova

Social simulation provides a compelling testbed for studying social intelligence, where agents interact through multi-turn dialogues under evolving contexts and strategically adapting opponents. Such environments are inherently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xiang Li , Liping Yi , Mingze Kong , Min Zhang , Zhongxiang Dai , QingHua Hu

The hypothetical global delivery schedule of Santa Claus must follow strict rolling night-time windows that vary with the Earth's rotation and obey an energy budget that depends on payload size and cruising speed. To design this schedule,…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-23 Elliot Fisher , Robin Smith

Continuous Ant-based Topology Search (CANTS) is a previously introduced novel nature-inspired neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm that is based on ant colony optimization (ACO). CANTS utilizes a continuous search space to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-01 AbdElRahman ElSaid , Karl Ricanek , Zeming Lyu , Alexander Ororbia , Travis Desell

In this paper we focus on finding high quality solutions for the problem of maximum partitioning of graphs with supply and demand (MPGSD). There is a growing interest for the MPGSD due to its close connection to problems appearing in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Raka Jovanovic , Milan Tuba , Stefan Voss

Ant colony optimization (ACO) leverages the parameter $\alpha$ to modulate the decision function's sensitivity to pheromone levels, balancing the exploration of diverse solutions with the exploitation of promising areas. Identifying the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-30 Shintaro Mori , Taiyo Shimizu , Masato Hisakado , Kazuaki Nakayama

Biological swarms, such as ant colonies, achieve collective goals through decentralized and stochastic individual behaviors. Similarly, physical systems composed of gases, liquids, and solids exhibit random particle motion governed by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lianhao Yin , Haiping Yu , Pascal Spino , Daniela Rus

Coverage Path Planning (CPP) aims at finding an optimal path that covers the whole given space. Due to the NP-hard nature, CPP remains a challenging problem. Bio-inspired algorithms such as Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) have been exploited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Christopher Carr , Peng Wang

Multi-agent systems provide a powerful way to extend large language models (LLMs) by decomposing a complex task into specialized subtasks handled by different agents. However, their performance is often hindered by error propagation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zheng Wang , Yuang Liu , Yangkai Ding

Recommender systems require their recommendation algorithms to be accurate, scalable and should handle very sparse training data which keep changing over time. Inspired by ant colony optimization, we propose a novel collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Yongji Wang , Xiaofeng Liao , Hu Wu , Jingzheng Wu

We present stochastic consensus and convergence of the discrete consensus-based optimization (CBO) algorithm with random batch interactions and heterogeneous external noises. Despite the wide applications and successful performance in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Dongnam Ko , Seung-Yeal Ha , Shi Jin , Doheon Kim

This article presents a new algorithm which is a modified version of the elite ant system (EAS) algorithm. The new version utilizes an effective criterion for escaping from the local optimum points. In contrast to the classical EAC…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-08 Majid Yousefikhoshbakht , Farzad Didehvar , Farhad Rahmati

Interaction between users in online social networks plays a key role in social network analysis. One on important types of social group is full connected relation between some users, which known as clique structure. Therefore finding a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Mohammad Soleimani-Pouri , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammad Reza Meybodi

Whenever humans use tools human performance is enhanced. Cognitive systems are a new kind of tool continually increasing in cognitive capability and are now performing high level cognitive tasks previously thought to be explicitly human.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ron Fulbright

Large Language Model (LLM)-based optimization has recently shown promise for autonomous problem solving, yet most approaches still cast LLMs as passive constraint checkers rather than proactive strategy designers, limiting their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Beidan Liu , Zhengqiu Zhu , Chen Gao , Tianle Pu , Yong Zhao , Wei Qi , Quanjun Yin

Although large language model (LLM) based multi-agent systems (MAS) show their capability to solve complex tasks and achieve higher performance over single agent systems, they lead to huge computational overheads because of heavy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ziyang Ma , Dingyi Zhang , Sichu Liang , Jiajia Chu , Pengfei Xia , Hui Zang , Deyu Zhou

The proper planning of different types of public transportation such as metro, highway, waterways, and so on, can increase the efficiency, reduce the congestion and improve the safety of the country. There are certain challenges associated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Hariram Sampath Kumar , Archana Singh , Manish Kumar Ojha