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We consider an opinion dynamics model where, during random pair interactions, each agent modifies her opinions about both agents of the random pair and also about some other agents, chosen randomly. Moreover, each agent belongs to a single…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Guillaume Deffuant , Thibaut Roubin

The premise of the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making is that multiple disciplines share an interest in goal-directed decision making over time. The idea of this paper is to sharpen and deepen this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Richard S. Sutton

An open multi-agent system (OMAS) features migrating agents which produce a flexible network that is naturally switching and size-varying. Meanwhile, agent migrations also make an OMAS prone to environmental adversities. In this work, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Mengqi Xue , Yuchao Xiong , Yue Song

Agents care not only about the outcomes of collective decisions but also about how decisions are made. In many cases, both the outcome and the procedure affect whether agents see a decision as legitimate, justifiable, or acceptable. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Ben Abramowitz , Nicholas Mattei

This paper presents a Multi-Agent System (MAS) approach for designing an air pollution simulator. The aim is to simulate the concentration of air pollutants emitted from sources (e.g. factories) and to investigate the emergence of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Sabri Ghazi , Julie Dugdale , Tarek Khadir

Multi-agent models are a suitable starting point to model complex social interactions. However, as the complexity of the systems increase, we argue that novel modeling approaches are needed that can deal with inter-dependencies at different…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Frank Dignum

The mechanisms of emergence and evolution of collective behaviours in dynamical Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) of multiple interacting agents, with diverse behavioral strategies in co-presence, have been undergoing mathematical study via…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-17 The Anh Han

Complex, non-linear tasks challenge LLM-enhanced multi-agent systems (MAS) due to partial observability and suboptimal coordination. We propose Orchestrator, a novel MAS framework that leverages attention-inspired self-emergent coordination…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Lukas Beckenbauer , Johannes-Lucas Loewe , Ge Zheng , Alexandra Brintrup

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred a surge of interest in leveraging these models for game-theoretical simulations, where LLMs act as individual agents engaging in social interactions. This study explores the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ilya Horiguchi , Takahide Yoshida , Takashi Ikegami

LLM-powered Multi-Agent Systems (LLM-MAS) unlock new potentials in distributed reasoning, collaboration, and task generalization but also introduce additional risks due to unguaranteed agreement, cascading uncertainty, and adversarial…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Jinwei Hu , Yi Dong , Shuang Ao , Zhuoyun Li , Boxuan Wang , Lokesh Singh , Guangliang Cheng , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Xiaowei Huang

Autonomous software agents operating in dynamic environments need to constantly reason about actions in pursuit of their goals, while taking into consideration norms which might be imposed on those actions. Normative practical reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Zohreh Shams , Marina De Vos , Julian Padget , Wamberto W. Vasconcelos

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly instantiated as interacting agents in multi-agent systems (MAS), where collective decisions emerge through social interaction rather than independent reasoning. A fundamental yet underexplored…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Chen Han , Jin Tan , Bohan Yu , Wenzhen Zheng , Xijin Tang

We propose a novel formulation of the "effectiveness problem" in communications, put forth by Shannon and Weaver in their seminal work [2], by considering multiple agents communicating over a noisy channel in order to achieve better…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Tze-Yang Tung , Szymon Kobus , Joan Roig Pujol , Deniz Gunduz

To safely interact with humans, AI agents must both know our norms and consider them during planning. However, such norm-guided planning has been less explored, only within communities of artificial agents, and has ignored the dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Taylor Olson , Roberto Salas-Damian , Kenneth D. Forbus

Agent-based models (ABMs) are simulation models used in economics to overcome some of the limitations of traditional frameworks based on general equilibrium assumptions. However, agents within an ABM follow predetermined 'bounded rational'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Simone Brusatin , Tommaso Padoan , Andrea Coletta , Domenico Delli Gatti , Aldo Glielmo

Fairness in language models is typically studied as a property of a single, centrally optimized model. As large language models become increasingly agentic, we propose that fairness emerges through interaction and exchange. We study this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Sayan Kumar Chaki , Antoine Gourru , Julien Velcin

Computational simulations are a popular method for testing hypotheses about the emergence of communication. This kind of research is performed in a variety of traditions including language evolution, developmental psychology, cognitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Julian Zubek , Tomasz Korbak , Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi

Autonomous agents empowered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have undergone significant improvements, enabling them to generalize across a broad spectrum of tasks. However, in real-world scenarios, cooperation among individuals is often…

This article is about an intelligent system to support ideas management as a result of a multi-agent system used in a distributed system with heterogeneous information as ideas and knowledge, after the results about an ontology to describe…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Pedro Barrios , Davy Monticolo , Sahbi Sidhom

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a well-established paradigm for simulating complex systems via interactions between constituent entities. Machine learning (ML) refers to approaches whereby statistical algorithms 'learn' from data on their…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-10 Nikita Sivakumar , Cameron Mura , Shayn M. Peirce