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Given a collection of red and blue mobile agents located on two grid rows, we seek to move all the blue agents to the far left side and all the red agents to the far right side, thus \textit{physically sorting} them according to color. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Dmitry Rabinovich , Michael Amir , Alfred M. Bruckstein

In several important routing contexts it is required to identify a set of routes, each of which optimizes a different criterion. For instance, in the context of vehicle routing, one route would minimize the total distance traveled, while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Ido Zoref , Ariel Orda

A team consisting of an unknown number of mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an unknown network, have to meet at the same node and terminate. This problem is known as {\em gathering}. We study deterministic gathering algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Andrzej Pelc

We investigate the network stability problem when two users are scheduled simultaneously. The key idea is to simultaneously transmit to more than one users experiencing different channel conditions by employing hierarchical modulation. For…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-06 Mehmet Karaca , Ozgur Ercetin

Several mobile agents, modelled as deterministic automata, navigate in an infinite line in synchronous rounds. All agents start in the same round. In each round, an agent can move to one of the two neighboring nodes, or stay idle. Agents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Younan Gao , Andrzej Pelc

An instance of the maximum mixed graph orientation problem consists of a mixed graph and a collection of source-target vertex pairs. The objective is to orient the undirected edges of the graph so as to maximize the number of pairs that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Iftah Gamzu , Moti Medina

Increasing interest in integrating advanced robotics within manufacturing has spurred a renewed concentration in developing real-time scheduling solutions to coordinate human-robot collaboration in this environment. Traditionally, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zheyuan Wang , Matthew Gombolay

Conflict-Based Search is one of the most popular methods for multi-agent path finding. Though it is complete and optimal, it does not scale well. Recent works have been proposed to accelerate it by introducing various heuristics. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Chenning Yu , Qingbiao Li , Sicun Gao , Amanda Prorok

We consider the problem of collective exploration of a known $n$-node edge-weighted graph by $k$ mobile agents that have limited energy but are capable of energy transfers. The agents are initially placed at an arbitrary subset of nodes in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-02-26 J. Czyzowicz , S. Dobrev , R. Killick , E. Kranakis , D. Krizanc , L. Narayanan , J. Opatrny , D. Pankratov , S. Shende

We present a study of the application of a variant of a recently introduced heuristic algorithm for the optimization of transport routes on complex networks to the problem of finding the optimal routes of communication between nodes on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Yong Yu , Bogdan Danila , John A. Marsh , Kevin E. Bassler

In this work, we consider solving a distributed optimization problem in a multi-agent network with multiple clusters. In each cluster, the involved agents cooperatively optimize a separable composite function with a common decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Jianzheng Wang , Guoqiang Hu

We consider the problem of routing on a network in the presence of line segment constraints (i.e., obstacles that edges in our network are not allowed to cross). Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in the plane and let $S$ be a set of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Prosenjit Bose , Matias Korman , André van Renssen , Sander Verdonschot

We propose a self-organization scheme for cost-effective and load-balanced routing in multi-hop networks. To avoid overloading nodes that provide favourable routing conditions, we assign each node with a cost function that penalizes high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-18 Mihai-Alin Badiu , David Saad , Justin P. Coon

When analyzing complex networks a key target is to uncover their modular structure, which means searching for a family of modules, namely node subsets spanning each a subnetwork more densely connected than the average. This work proposes a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Giovanni Rossi

Distributed computing excels at processing large scale data, but the communication cost for synchronizing the shared parameters may slow down the overall performance. Fortunately, the interactions between parameter and data in many problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Mu Li , Dave G. Andersen , Alexander J. Smola

Optimal paths connecting randomly selected network nodes and fixed routers are studied analytically in the presence of non-linear overlap cost that penalizes congestion. Routing becomes increasingly more difficult as the number of selected…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-05-15 Chi Ho Yeung , David Saad

Hybrid locomotion, which combines multiple modalities of locomotion within a single robot, enables robots to carry out complex tasks in diverse environments. This paper presents a novel method for planning multi-modal locomotion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 H. J. Terry Suh , Xiaobin Xiong , Andrew Singletary , Aaron D. Ames , Joel W. Burdick

We propose a scalable, distributed algorithm for the optimal transport of large-scale multi-agent systems. We formulate the problem as one of steering the collective towards a target probability measure while minimizing the total cost of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Vishaal Krishnan , Sonia Martínez

From software development to robot control, modern agentic systems decompose complex objectives into a sequence of subtasks and choose a set of specialized AI agents to complete them. We formalize agentic workflows as directed acyclic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guruprerana Shabadi , Rajeev Alur

In various online/offline multi-agent networked environments, it is very popular that the system can benefit from coordinating actions of two interacting agents at some cost of coordination. In this paper, we first formulate an optimization…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Hyeryung Jang , Jinwoo Shin , Yung Yi