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The bottleneck of useful agentic intelligence has shifted from compressing world knowledge into a single model to executing a coordinated system. This position paper argues that personal-agent architecture must move to the edge because the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chunlin Tian , Dongqi Cai , Wanru Zhao , Nicholas D. Lane

We consider the problem of periodic graph exploration in which a mobile entity with constant memory, an agent, has to visit all n nodes of an arbitrary undirected graph G in a periodic manner. Graphs are supposed to be anonymous, that is,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-05-13 J. Czyzowicz , S. Dobrev , L. Gasieniec , D. Ilcinkas , J. Jansson , R. Klasing , I. Lignos , R. Martin , K. Sadakane , W. -K. Sung

In this paper, we address the problem of autonomous multi-robot mapping, exploration and navigation in unknown, GPS-denied indoor or urban environments using a swarm of robots equipped with directional sensors with limited sensing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Mohammad Saleh Teymouri , Subhrajit Bhattacharya

Distance-2-Dispersion (D-2-D) problem aims to disperse $k$ mobile agents starting from an arbitrary initial configuration on an anonymous port-labeled graph $G$ with $n$ nodes such that no two agents occupy adjacent nodes in the final…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Tanvir Kaur , Barun Gorain , Kaushik Mondal

In this paper, we present the benefits of exploring different topologies with equal connectivity measure, or iso-connectivity topologies, in relation to the multiagent system dynamics. The level of global information sharing ability among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Rajdeep Dutta , Daniel Pack

We consider a problem where autonomous agents enter a dynamic and unknown environment described by a network of weighted arcs. These agents move within the network from node to node according to a decentralized policy using only local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Francesca Rosset , Raffaele Pesenti , Franco Blanchini

Given a connected region in two-dimensional space where events of a certain kind occur according to a certain time-varying density, we consider the problem of setting up a network of autonomous mobile agents to detect the occurrence of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Rodrigo R. Esch , Fábio Protti , Valmir C. Barbosa

This paper addresses the problem of both actively searching and tracking multiple unknown dynamic objects in a known environment with multiple cooperative autonomous agents with partial observability. The tracking of a target ends when the…

While multi-agent interactions can be naturally modeled as a graph, the environment has traditionally been considered as a black box. We propose to create a shared agent-entity graph, where agents and environmental entities form vertices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Akshat Agarwal , Sumit Kumar , Katia Sycara

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

Motivated by concerns about diversity in social networks, we consider the following pattern formation problems in rings. Assume $n$ mobile agents are located at the nodes of an $n$-node ring network. Each agent is assigned a colour from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Anne-Laure Ehresmann , Manuel Lafond , Lata Narayanan , Jaroslav Opatrny

The multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem asks to find a set of paths on a graph such that when synchronously following these paths the agents never encounter a conflict. In the most widespread MAPF formulation, the so-called Classical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Artem Agafonov , Konstantin Yakovlev

We study the problem of exploring an oriented grid with autonomous agents governed by finite automata. In the case of a 2-dimensional grid, the question how many agents are required to explore the grid, or equivalently, find a hidden…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Sebastian Brandt , Julian Portmann , Jara Uitto

Edge computing breaks with traditional autoscaling due to strict resource constraints, thus, motivating more flexible scaling behaviors using multiple elasticity dimensions. This work introduces an agent-based autoscaling framework that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Boris Sedlak , Alireza Furutanpey , Zihang Wang , Víctor Casamayor Pujol , Schahram Dustdar

In this paper, we present a communication-free algorithm for distributed coverage of an arbitrary network by a group of mobile agents with local sensing capabilities. The network is represented as a graph, and the agents are arbitrarily…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-01 A. Yasin Yazicioglu , Magnus Egerstedt , Jeff S. Shamma

In this paper, we propose a new framework for multi-agent collaborative exploration of unknown environments. The proposed method combines state-of-the-art algorithms in mapping, safe corridor generation and multi-agent planning. It first…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Charbel Toumieh , Alain Lambert

We consider an Anonymous Multi-Agent Path-Finding (AMAPF) problem where the set of agents is confined to a graph, a set of goal vertices is given and each of these vertices has to be reached by some agent. The problem is to find an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zain Alabedeen Ali , Konstantin Yakovlev

We study a graph pathfinding problem Distance-$r$ Independent Unlabeled Multi-Agent Pathfinding, finding a set of collision-free paths between two sets where agents must stay at pairwise distance at least $r+1$ at all times. This additional…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Takahiro Suzuki , Yuma Tamura , Keisuke Okumura

The task of rendezvous (also called {\em gathering}) calls for a meeting of two or more mobile entities, starting from different positions in some environment. Those entities are called mobile agents or robots, and the environment can be a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Andrzej Pelc

We consider the dispersion problem for mobile agents. Initially, k agents are located at arbitrary nodes in an undirected graph. Agents can migrate from node to node via an edge in the graph synchronously. Our goal is to let the k agents be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Takahiro Shintaku , Yuichi Sudo , Hirotsugu Kakugawa , Toshimitsu Masuzawa