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The ability of biological and artificial collectives to outperform solitary individuals in a wide variety of tasks depends crucially on the efficient processing of social and environmental information at the level of the collective. Here,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Parisa Rahmani , Fernando Peruani , Pawel Romanczuk

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has gained wide attention in recent years and has made progress in various fields. Specifically, cooperative MARL focuses on training a team of agents to cooperatively achieve tasks that are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Lei Yuan , Ziqian Zhang , Lihe Li , Cong Guan , Yang Yu

The rapidly changing environments in which companies operate to support the Internet of Things (IoT) and Autonomous Vehicles is challenging traditional Multi agent System (MAS) approaches. The requirements of these highly dynamic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Marx Viana , Lauro Caetano , Francisco Cunha , Paulo Alencar , Carlos Lucena

This paper proposes an intelligent service optimization method based on a multi-agent collaborative evolution mechanism to address governance challenges in large-scale microservice architectures. These challenges include complex service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yilin Li , Song Han , Sibo Wang , Ming Wang , Renzi Meng

In the past decade, we have witnessed the rise of deep learning to dominate the field of artificial intelligence. Advances in artificial neural networks alongside corresponding advances in hardware accelerators with large memory capacity,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-11 David Ha , Yujin Tang

A fundamental challenge in multiagent reinforcement learning is to learn beneficial behaviors in a shared environment with other simultaneously learning agents. In particular, each agent perceives the environment as effectively…

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) with Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents are gaining attention, yet fewer studies explore their team dynamics. Inspired by human team science, we propose a multi-agent framework to examine core aspects of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Rasika Muralidharan , Haewoon Kwak , Jisun An

The spontaneous organization of collective activities in animal groups and societies has attracted a considerable amount of attention over the last decade. This kind of coordination often permits group-living species to achieve collective…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-05-20 Mehdi Moussaid , Simon Garnier , Guy Theraulaz , Dirk Helbing

Collaboration is a fundamental and essential characteristic of many complex systems, ranging from ant colonies to human societies. Each component within a complex system interacts with others, even at a distance, to accomplish a given task.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mehdi Bakhshipoor , Yousef Azizi , Seyed Ehsan Nedaaee Oskoee

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have greatly extended the capabilities of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), demonstrating significant effectiveness across a wide range of complex and open-ended domains. However, despite this…

Most of the grand challenges of humanity today involve complex agent-based systems, such as epidemiology, economics or ecology. However, remains as a pending task the challenge of identifying the general principles underlying their…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-19 Martin Jaraiz

In this paper, we review multi-agent collective behavior algorithms in the literature and classify them according to their underlying mathematical structure. For each mathematical technique, we identify the multi-agent coordination tasks it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Federico Rossi , Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay , Michael Wolf , Marco Pavone

Humans possess innate collaborative capacities. However, effective teamwork often remains challenging. This study delves into the feasibility of collaboration within teams of rational, self-interested agents who engage in teamwork without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Alejandra López de Aberasturi Gómez , Carles Sierra , Jordi Sabater-Mir

Multi-agent reinforcement learning has recently shown great promise as an approach to networked system control. Arguably, one of the most difficult and important tasks for which large scale networked system control is applicable is…

Complex adaptive systems have been the subject of much recent attention. It is by now well-established that members (`agents') tend to self-segregate into opposing groups characterized by extreme behavior. However, while different social…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Shahar Hod , Ehud Nakar

The ultimate navigation efficiency of mobile robots in human environments will depend on how we will appraise them: merely as impersonal machines or as human-like agents. In the latter case, an agent may take advantage of the cooperative…

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of controlling collective behavior in complex systems comprising large ensembles of interacting dynamical agents. Building upon traditional control theory's foundation in individual systems, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Marco Coraggio , Davide Salzano , Mario di Bernardo

Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive zero-shot and few-shot generalization capabilities across complex natural language tasks, enabling their widespread use as virtual assistants for diverse applications such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Arjun Vaithilingam Sudhakar

Collective decision making using simple social interactions has been studied in many types of multi-agent systems, including robot swarms and human social networks. However, existing multi-agent studies have rarely modeled the neural…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Nicolas Coucke , Mary Katherine Heinrich , Axel Cleeremans , Marco Dorigo , Guillaume Dumas

With recent advancements in multi-agent generative AI (Gen AI), technology organizations like Microsoft are adopting these complex tools, redefining AI agents as active collaborators in complex workflows rather than as passive tools. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Suchismita Naik , Austin L. Toombs , Amanda Snellinger , Scott Saponas , Amanda K. Hall