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Active traffic management with autonomous vehicles offers the potential for reduced congestion and improved traffic flow. However, developing effective algorithms for real-world scenarios requires overcoming challenges related to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shengchao Yan , Lukas König , Wolfram Burgard

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are being readily and rapidly adopted, increasingly permeating critical domains: from consumer platforms and enterprise software to networked systems with embedded agents. While this has unlocked…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Amy Chang , Tiffany Saade , Sanket Mendapara , Adam Swanda , Ankit Garg

Data agents, empowered by Large Language Models (LLMs), introduce a new paradigm in transaction processing. Unlike traditional applications with fixed patterns, data agents run online-generated workflows that repeatedly issue SQL…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Weixing Zhou , Zhiyou Wang , Zeshun Peng , Hetian Chen , Yanfeng Zhang , Ge Yu

Autonomous agent frameworks built upon large language models (LLMs) are evolving into complex, tool-integrated, and continuously operating systems, introducing security risks beyond traditional prompt-level vulnerabilities. As this paradigm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Luyao Xu , Xiang Chen

The rapid adoption of agentic AI in enterprise business operations--autonomous systems capable of planning, reasoning, and executing multi-step workflows--has created an urgent governance crisis. Organizations face uncontrolled agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Vivek Acharya

The increasing deployment of end use power resources in distribution systems created active distribution systems. Uncontrolled active distribution systems exhibit wide variations of voltage and loading throughout the day as some of these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Matthew Lau , Kayla Thames , Sakis Meliopoulos

Supply Chain Agility is important for organisations to stay competitive in today's dynamic business environment. There is increasing interest in deploying Business Intelligence (BI) in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) context to improve…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Mohammad Moniruzzaman , Sherah Kurnia , Alison Parkes , Sean B. Maynard

In this work we analyze Multi-Agent Advantage Actor-Critic (MA2C) a recently proposed multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm that can be applied to adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) problems. To evaluate its potential we compare…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Paolo Fazzini , Isaac Wheeler , Francesco Petracchini

We study a sequential decision-making problem for a profit-maximizing operator of an autonomous mobility-on-demand system. Optimizing a central operator's vehicle-to-request dispatching policy requires efficient and effective fleet control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Zeno Woywood , Jasper I. Wiltfang , Julius Luy , Tobias Enders , Maximilian Schiffer

A novel deep multi-agent reinforcement learning framework is proposed to identify and resolve conflicts among a variable number of aircraft in a high-density, stochastic, and dynamic sector. Currently the sector capacity is constrained by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Marc Brittain , Xuxi Yang , Peng Wei

Multiagent Systems (MASs) involve different characteristics, such as autonomy, asynchronous and social features, which make these systems more difficult to understand. Thus, there is a lack of procedures guaranteeing that multiagent systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Nathalia Nascimento , Carlos Lucena , Paulo Alencar , Carlos Juliano Viana

We take the position that agent security must be approached as a systems problem: the AI model powering the agent must be treated as an untrusted component, and security invariants must be enforced at the system level. Through this lens,…

Recent events such as wars, sanctions, pandemics, and climate change have shown the importance of proper supply network management. A key step in managing supply networks is procurement. We present an approach for realizing a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jan-David Stütz , Oliver Karras , Allard Oelen , Sören Auer

As multi-robot systems continue to advance and become integral to various applications, managing conflicts and ensuring secure access control are critical challenges that need to be addressed. Access control is essential in multi-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Salma Salimi , Farhad Keramat , Tomi Westerlund , Jorge Peña Queralta

This paper introduces a multi-agent application system designed to enhance office collaboration efficiency and work quality. The system integrates artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing technologies,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Songtao Sun , Jingyi Li , Yuanfei Dong , Haoguang Liu , Chenxin Xu , Fuyang Li , Qiang Liu

This paper explores multi-agent systems and identify challenges that remain inadequately addressed. By leveraging the diverse capabilities and roles of individual agents, multi-agent systems can tackle complex tasks through agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Shanshan Han , Qifan Zhang , Weizhao Jin , Zhaozhuo Xu

This position paper states that AI Alignment in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) should be considered a dynamic and interaction-dependent process that heavily depends on the social environment where agents are deployed, either collaborative,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Florian Carichon , Aditi Khandelwal , Marylou Fauchard , Golnoosh Farnadi

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

Autonomous systems with cognitive features are on their way into the market. Within complex environments, they promise to implement complex and goal oriented behavior even in a safety related context. This behavior is based on a certain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Henrik J. Putzer , Ernest Wozniak

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has attracted much research attention recently. However, unlike its single-agent counterpart, many theoretical and algorithmic aspects of MARL have not been well-understood. In this paper, we study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Siliang Zeng , Tianyi Chen , Alfredo Garcia , Mingyi Hong