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Generalization poses a significant challenge in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). The extent to which an agent is influenced by unseen co-players depends on the agent's policy and the specific scenario. A quantitative examination…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yuxin Chen , Chen Tang , Ran Tian , Chenran Li , Jinning Li , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

We investigate the behavior of a large number of selfish users that are able to switch dynamically between multiple wireless access-points (possibly belonging to different standards) by introducing an iterated non-cooperative game. Users…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-09 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Aris L. Moustakas

Many modern software systems are built as a set of autonomous software components (also called agents) that collaborate with each other and are situated in an environment. To keep these multiagent systems operational under abnormal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 João Faccin , Ingrid Nunes , Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj

Human dynamics is known to be inhomogeneous and bursty but the detailed understanding of the role of human factors in bursty dynamics is still lacking. In order to investigate their role we devise an agent-based model, where an agent in an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-01-06 Hang-Hyun Jo , Eunyoung Moon , Kimmo Kaski

Large scale systems are forecasted to greatly impact our future lives thanks to their wide ranging applications including cooperative robotics, mobility on demand, resource allocation, supply chain management. While technological…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Dario Paccagnan

In complex, open, and heterogeneous environments, agents must be able to reorganize towards the most appropriate organizations to adapt unpredictable environment changes within Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Types of reorganization can be seen…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Hosny Ahmed Abbas , Samir Ibrahim Shaheen , Mohammed Hussein Amin

The modernization of the power system introduces technologies that may improve the system's efficiency by enhancing the capabilities of users. Despite their potential benefits, such technologies can have a negative impact. This subject has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Carlos Barreto , Eduardo Mojica-Nava , Nicanor Quijano

Self-organization is a process where a stable pattern is formed by the cooperative behavior between parts of an initially disordered system without external control or influence. It has been introduced to multi-agent systems as an internal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Jieting Luo , Beishui Liao , John-Jules Meyer

Active-passive multiagent systems consist of agents subject to inputs (active agents) and agents with no inputs (passive agents), where active and passive agent roles are considered to be interchangeable in order to capture a wide array of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Ehsan Arabi , Dimitra Panagou , Tansel Yucelen

The allocation of computing tasks for networked distributed services poses a question to service providers on whether centralized allocation management be worth its cost. Existing analytical models were conceived for users accessing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Vincenzo Mancuso , Paolo Castagno , Leonardo Badia , Matteo Sereno , Marco Ajmone Marsan

Coordination in multi-agent systems is challenging for agile robots such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), where relative agent positions frequently change due to unconstrained movement. The problem is exacerbated through the individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Mirco Theile , Jonathan Ponniah , Or Dantsker , Marco Caccamo

Research on multi-agent planning has been popular in recent years. While previous research has been motivated by the understanding that, through cooperation, multi-agent systems can achieve tasks that are unachievable by single-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Yu Zhang , Subbarao Kambhampati

Large language models have been used to simulate human society using multi-agent systems. Most current social simulation research emphasizes interactive behaviors in fixed environments, ignoring information opacity, relationship…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yiwen Zhang , Yifu Wu , Wenyue Hua , Xiang Lu , Xuming Hu

The hidden-action model captures a fundamental problem of principal-agent theory and provides an optimal sharing rule when only the outcome but not the effort can be observed. However, the hidden-action model builds on various explicit and…

General Economics · Economics 2020-04-15 Stephan Leitner , Friederike Wall

This paper addresses the coverage control problem of multi-agent systems in the uncertain environment. With the aid of Voronoi partition, a distributed coverage control formulation of multi-agent system is proposed to complete the workload…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Yinan Zheng , Chao Zhai

Multi-agent learning is a challenging problem in machine learning that has applications in different domains such as distributed control, robotics, and economics. We develop a prescriptive model of multi-agent behavior using Markov games.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Jalal Etesami , Christoph-Nikolas Straehle

This technical note studies the reliability limits of LLM-based multi-agent planning as a delegated decision problem. We model the LLM-based multi-agent architecture as a finite acyclic decision network in which multiple stages process…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ruicheng Ao , Siyang Gao , David Simchi-Levi

When human agents come together to make decisions, it is often the case that one human agent has more information than the other. This phenomenon is called information asymmetry and this distorts the market. Often if one human agent intends…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Tshilidzi Marwala , Evan Hurwitz

In large systems, it is important for agents to learn to act effectively, but sophisticated multi-agent learning algorithms generally do not scale. An alternative approach is to find restricted classes of games where simple, efficient…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-03-16 Ian A. Kash , Eric J. Friedman , Joseph Y. Halpern

We investigate the problem of monitoring multiple targets using a single mobile sensor, with the goal of minimizing the maximum estimation error among all the targets over long time horizons. The sensor can move in a network-constrained…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Samuel C. Pinto , Sean B. Andersson , Julien M. Hendrickx , Christos G. Cassandras