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We study the problem of matching agents who arrive at a marketplace over time and leave after d time periods. Agents can only be matched while they are present in the marketplace. Each pair of agents can yield a different match value, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Itai Ashlagi , Maximilien Burq , Patrick Jaillet , Amin Saberi

Two mobile agents, starting at arbitrary, possibly different times from arbitrary nodes of an unknown network, have to meet at some node. Agents move in synchronous rounds: in each round an agent can either stay at the current node or move…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Samir Elouasbi , Andrzej Pelc

We consider the task of rendezvous in networks modeled as undirected graphs. Two mobile agents with different labels, starting at different nodes of an anonymous graph, have to meet. This task has been considered in the literature under two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Sébastien Bouchard , Yoann Dieudonné , Andrzej Pelc , Franck Petit

A standard belief on emerging collective behavior is that it emerges from simple individual rules. Most of the mathematical research on such collective behavior starts from imperative individual rules, like always go to the center. But how…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-23 El Mahdi El Mhamdi , Rachid Guerraoui , Alexandre Maurer , Vladislav Tempez

In a rendezvous task, some mobile agents dispersed in a network have to gather at an arbitrary common site. We consider the rendezvous problem on the infinite labeled line, with $2$ agents, without communication, and a synchronous notion of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yann Bourreau , Ananth Narayanan , Alexandre Nolin

In this paper we study the task of approach of two mobile agents having the same limited range of vision and moving asynchronously in the plane. This task consists in getting them in finite time within each other's range of vision. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Sébastien Bouchard , Marjorie Bournat , Yoann Dieudonné , Swan Dubois , Franck Petit

Gathering is a fundamental coordination problem in cooperative mobile robotics. In short, given a set of robots with arbitrary initial locations and no initial agreement on a global coordinate system, gathering requires that all robots,…

We consider leader election in anonymous radio networks modeled as simple undirected connected graphs. Nodes communicate in synchronous rounds. Nodes are anonymous and execute the same deterministic algorithm, so symmetry can be broken only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Avery Miller , Andrzej Pelc , Ram Narayan Yadav

We study a distributed coordination mechanism for uniform agents located on a circle. The agents perform their actions in synchronised rounds. At the beginning of each round an agent chooses the direction of its movement from clockwise,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Leszek Gasieniec , Tomasz Jurdzinski , Russell Martin , Grzegorz Stachowiak

This paper studies the gathering problem for a set of $N \ge 2$ autonomous mobile robots operating in the Euclidean plane under the distributed Look-Compute-Move model. We consider oblivious robots executing under the adversarial defected…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Prakhar Shukla , Seshunadh Tanuj Peddinti , Subhash Bhagat

This paper revisits the widely researched \textit{gathering} problem for two robots in a scenario which allows randomization in the asynchronous scheduling model. The scheduler is considered to be the adversary which determines the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Debasish Pattanayak , John Augustine , Partha Sarathi Mandal

We study the gathering problem requiring a team of mobile agents to gather at a single node in arbitrary networks. The team consists of $k$ agents with unique identifiers (IDs), and $f$ of them are weakly Byzantine agents, which behave…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jion Hirose , Junya Nakamura , Fukuhito Ooshita , Michiko Inoue

The problem of gathering multiple mobile robots to a single location, is one of the fundamental problems in distributed coordination between autonomous robots. The problem has been studied and solved even for robots that are anonymous,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Zohir Bouzid , Shantanu Das , Sébastien Tixeuil

We consider a swarm of $n$ autonomous mobile robots, distributed on a 2-dimensional grid. A basic task for such a swarm is the gathering process: All robots have to gather at one (not predefined) place. A common local model for extremely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Matthias Fischer , Daniel Jung , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

We consider a swarm of mobile robots evolving in a bidimensional Euclidean space. We study a variant of the crash-tolerant gathering problem: if no robot crashes, robots have to meet at the same arbitrary location, not known beforehand, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Quentin Bramas , Anissa Lamani , Sébastien Tixeuil

We introduce a variant of the deterministic rendezvous problem for a pair of heterogeneous agents operating in an undirected graph, which differ in the time they require to traverse particular edges of the graph. Each agent knows the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Dariusz Dereniowski , Ralf Klasing , Adrian Kosowski , Łukasz Kuszner

The gathering over meeting nodes problem requires the robots to gather at one of the pre-defined meeting nodes. This paper investigates the problem with respect to the objective function that minimizes the total number of moves made by all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Subhash Bhagat , Abhinav Chakraborty , Bibhuti Das , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

An autonomous mobile robot system consisting of many mobile computational entities (called robots) attracts much attention of researchers, and to clarify the relation between the capabilities of robots and solvability of the problems is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Yonghwan Kim , Masahiro Shibata , Yuichi Sudo , Junya Nakamura , Yoshiaki Katayama , Toshimitsu Masuzawa

One of the most essential prerequisites behind a successful task execution of a team of agents is to accurately estimate and track their poses. We consider a cooperative multi-agent positioning problem where each agent performs single-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Milutin Pajovic , Vikrant Shah , Philip V. Orlik

Two mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an $n$-node network at possibly different times, have to meet at the same node. This problem is known as rendezvous. Agents move in synchronous rounds using a deterministic algorithm. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Avery Miller , Andrzej Pelc