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Animating and simulating crowds using an agent-based approach is a well-established area where every agent in the crowd is individually controlled such that global human-like behaviour emerges. We observe that human navigation and movement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yibo Liu , Liam Shatzel , Brandon Haworth , Teseo Schneider

The serious games between humans and AI have only just begun. Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) models the competitive and cooperative strategies of biological entities. EGT could help predict the potential evolutionary equilibrium of humans…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Nandini Doreswamy , Louise Horstmanshof

Formal modelling of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is a challenging task due to high complexity, interaction, parallelism and continuous change of roles and organisation between agents. In this paper we record our research experience on formal…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-08-20 Petros Kefalas , Ioanna Stamatopoulou

Multi-agent systems composed of large generative models are rapidly moving from laboratory prototypes to real-world deployments, where they jointly plan, negotiate, and allocate shared resources to solve complex tasks. While such systems…

Designing institutions for social-ecological systems requires models that capture heterogeneity, uncertainty, and strategic interaction. Multiple modeling approaches have emerged to meet this challenge, including empirical game-theoretic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jennifer Shi , Christopher K. Frantz , Christian Kimmich , Saba Siddiki , Atrisha Sarkar

Despite increasing attention paid to the need for fast, scalable methods to analyze next-generation neuroscience data, comparatively little attention has been paid to the development of similar methods for behavioral analysis. Just as the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-02 Shariq Iqbal , John Pearson

Simulation of population dynamics is a central research theme in computational biology, which contributes to understanding the interactions between predators and preys. Conventional mathematical tools of this theme, however, are incapable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Jun Yamada , John Shawe-Taylor , Zafeirios Fountas

Language emergence and evolution has recently gained growing attention through multi-agent models and mathematical frameworks to study their behavior. Here we investigate further the Naming Game, a model able to account for the emergence of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-07-21 Andrea Baronchelli , Vittorio Loreto , Luc Steels

Evolutionary games are a developing sub-field of game theory. This branch of game theory is used in the study of the adaptation of large, but finite, populations of agents to changes in the environment. It assumes that each agent has no…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-12 E. M. Lorits , E. A. Gubar

Collective, especially group-based, managerial decision making is crucial in organizations. Using an evolutionary theoretic approach to collective decision making, agent-based simulations were conducted to investigate how human collective…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Shelley D. Dionne , Hiroki Sayama , Francis J. Yammarino

While evolutionary computation is well suited for automatic discovery in engineering, it can also be used to gain insight into how humans and organizations could perform more effectively. Using a real-world problem of innovation search in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Erkin Bahceci , Riitta Katila , Risto Miikkulainen

Mobile autonomous system (MAS) becomes pervasive especially in the vehicular and robotic networks. Multiple heterogeneous MAS networks can be integrated together as a multi-layer MAS network to offer holistic services. The network…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Juntao Chen , Quanyan Zhu

As autonomous agents become more prevalent, understanding their collective behaviour in strategic interactions is crucial. This study investigates the emergent cooperative tendencies of systems of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Richard Willis , Yali Du , Joel Z Leibo , Michael Luck

Emergent effects can arise in multi-agent systems (MAS) where execution is decentralized and reliant on local information. These effects may range from minor deviations in behavior to catastrophic system failures. To formally define these…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Philipp Altmann , Julian Schönberger , Steffen Illium , Maximilian Zorn , Fabian Ritz , Tom Haider , Simon Burton , Thomas Gabor

We explore how physical scale and population size shape the emergence of complex behaviors in open-ended ecological environments. In our setting, agents are unsupervised and have no explicit rewards or learning objectives but instead evolve…

Antagonistic crowd behaviors are often observed in cases of serious conflict. Antagonistic emotions, which is the typical psychological state of agents in different roles (i.e. cops, activists, and civilians) in crowd violent scenes, and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Chaochao Li , Pei Lv , Dinesh Manocha , Hua Wang , Yafei Li , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu

Autonomous multi-agent systems such as hospital robots and package delivery drones often operate in highly uncertain environments and are expected to achieve complex temporal task objectives while ensuring safety. While learning-based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Sheryl Paul , Anand Balakrishnan , Xin Qin , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

We present an evolutionary game theoretic approach to study node cooperation behavior in wireless ad hoc networks. Evolutionary game theory (EGT) has been used to study the conditions governing the growth of cooperation behavior in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Abhik Banerjee , Vincent Gauthier , Houda Labiod , Hossam Afifi

Designing protocols enhancing cooperation for multi-agent systems remains a grand challenge. Cheap talk, defined as costless, non-binding communication before formal action, serves as a pivotal solution. However, existing theoretical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhao Song , Chen Shen , Zhen Wang , The Anh Han

We discover the mechanism for the transition from self-segregation (into opposing groups) to clustering (towards cautious behaviors) in the evolutionary minority game (EMG). The mechanism is illustrated with a statistical mechanics analysis…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Kan Chen , Bing-Hong Wang , Baosheng Yuan