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This study proposed a model to give a full-scale simulation for the dynamics of the collaborations in the dblp dataset. It is a distributed model with the capability of simulating large hypergraphs, namely systems with heterogeneously…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-22 Zheng Xie

This paper studies the distributed optimization problem with possibly nonidentical local constraints, where its global objective function is composed of $N$ convex functions. The aim is to solve the considered optimization problem in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Hongzhe Liu , Wenwu Yu , Guanghui Wen , Wei Xing Zheng

Motivated by the fact that intelligent traffic control systems have become inevitable demand to cope with the risk of traffic congestion in urban areas, this paper develops a distributed control strategy for urban traffic networks. Since…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Viet Hoang Pham , Kazunori Sakurama , Shaoshuai Mou , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Heterogeneous networks comprise agents with varying capabilities in terms of computation, storage, and communication. In such settings, it is crucial to factor in the operating characteristics in allowing agents to choose appropriate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Yichuan Li , Petros Voulgaris , Nikolaos M. Freris

This work develops effective distributed strategies for the solution of constrained multi-agent stochastic optimization problems with coupled parameters across the agents. In this formulation, each agent is influenced by only a subset of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Ali H. Sayed

We propose a distributed algorithm to solve a dynamic programming problem with multiple agents, where each agent has only partial knowledge of the state transition probabilities and costs. We provide consensus proofs for the presented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Nikolaus Vertovec , Kostas Margellos

Differential equations are a ubiquitous tool to study dynamics, ranging from physical systems to complex systems, where a large number of agents interact through a graph with non-trivial topological features. Data-driven approximations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-26 Vaiva Vasiliauskaite , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

We develop a learning-based algorithm for the distributed formation control of networked multi-agent systems governed by unknown, nonlinear dynamics. Most existing algorithms either assume certain parametric forms for the unknown dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Christos K. Verginis , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

To improve the utility of learning applications and render machine learning solutions feasible for complex applications, a substantial amount of heavy computations is needed. Thus, it is essential to delegate the computations among several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Medard

The mixing time of a graph is an important metric, which is not only useful in analyzing connectivity and expansion properties of the network, but also serves as a key parameter in designing efficient algorithms. We present an efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan

This technical note addresses the distributed fixed-time consensus protocol design problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics over directed communication graphs. By using motion planning approaches, a class of distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Yu Zhao , Yongfang Liu , Guanrong Chen

This paper presents distributed algorithmic solutions that employ opportunistic inter-agent communication to achieve dynamic average consensus. In our solutions each agent is endowed with a local criterion that enables it to determine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

This paper proposes an algorithm for motion planning among dynamic agents using adaptive conformal prediction. We consider a deterministic control system and use trajectory predictors to predict the dynamic agents' future motion, which is…

In this work, a novel distributed search-planning framework is proposed, where a dynamically varying team of autonomous agents cooperate in order to search multiple objects of interest in three-dimension (3-D). It is assumed that the agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

Control of large-scale networked systems often necessitates the availability of complex models for the interactions amongst the agents. However in many applications, building accurate models of agents or interactions amongst them might be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Siavash Alemzadeh , Mehran Mesbahi

We consider the problem of distributed learning, where a network of agents collectively aim to agree on a hypothesis that best explains a set of distributed observations of conditionally independent random processes. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , César A. Uribe

Multiagent systems aim to accomplish highly complex learning tasks through decentralised consensus seeking dynamics and their use has garnered a great deal of attention in the signal processing and computational intelligence societies. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-20 Sayed Pouria Talebi , Danilo Mandic

In this paper, a time-varying distributed convex optimization problem is studied for continuous-time multi-agent systems. Control algorithms are designed for the cases of single-integrator and double-integrator dynamics. Two discontinuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Salar Rahili , Wei Ren

In this paper, we introduce a nonlinear distributed model predictive control (DMPC) algorithm, which allows for dissimilar and time-varying control horizons among agents, thereby addressing a common limitation in current DMPC schemes. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Paula Chanfreut , José M. Maestre , Quanyan Zhu , W. P. M. H. Heemels

In this paper, we investigate the distributed optimal control problem for a kind of nonlinear multi-agent systems. In particular,both the state and the system dynamic structures of each agent are private and can only be shared among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Ruixue Li , Wenjing Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Xun Li , Juanjuan Xu