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In this project, our goal is to determine how to leverage the world-knowledge of pretrained large language models for efficient and robust learning in multiagent decision making. We examine this in a taxi routing and assignment problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Huangyuan Su , Aaron Walsman , Daniel Garces , Sham Kakade , Stephanie Gil

Balancing passenger demand and vehicle availability is crucial for ensuring the sustainability and effectiveness of urban transportation systems. To address this challenge, we propose a novel hierarchical strategy for the efficient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Pengbo Zhu , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate , Nikolas Geroliminis

We introduce the concept of continuous transportation task to the context of multi-agent systems. A continuous transportation task is one in which a multi-agent team visits a number of fixed locations, picks up objects, and delivers them to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Chao Wang , Somchaya Liemhetcharat , Kian Hsiang Low

In large-scale multi-agent systems like taxi fleets, individual agents (taxi drivers) are self-interested (maximizing their own profits) and this can introduce inefficiencies in the system. One such inefficiency is with regard to the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Rajiv Ranjan Kumar , Pradeep Varakantham , Shih-Fen Cheng

One of the main operational challenges faced by the operators of one-way car-sharing systems is to ensure vehicle availability across the regions of the service areas with uneven patterns of rental requests. Fleet balancing strategies are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Riccardo Iacobucci , Raffaele Bruno , Chiara Boldrini

In this paper we tackle the problem of routing multiple agents in a coordinated manner. This is a complex problem that has a wide range of applications in fleet management to achieve a common goal, such as mapping from a swarm of robots and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Quinlan Sykora , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Operators of Electric Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (E-AMoD) fleets need to make several real-time decisions such as matching available vehicles to ride requests, rebalancing idle vehicles to areas of high demand, and charging vehicles to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Aaryan Singhal , Daniele Gammelli , Justin Luke , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Dominik Helmreich , Marco Pavone

In this paper we study rebalancing strategies for a mobility-on-demand urban transportation system blending customer-driven vehicles with a taxi service. In our system, a customer arrives at one of many designated stations and is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-15 Stephen L. Smith , Marco Pavone , Mac Schwager , Emilio Frazzoli , Daniela Rus

Matching demand (riders) to supply (drivers) efficiently is a fundamental problem for ride-sharing platforms who need to match the riders (almost) as soon as the request arrives with only partial knowledge about future ride requests. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Omar El Housni , Vineet Goyal , Oussama Hanguir , Clifford Stein

Efficiently solving path planning problems for a large number of robots is critical to the successful operation of modern warehouses. The existing approaches adopt classical shortest path algorithms to plan in environments whose cells are…

We formulate offloading of computational tasks from a dynamic group of mobile agents (e.g., cars) as decentralized decision making among autonomous agents. We design an interaction mechanism that incentivizes such agents to align private…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Jing Tan , Ramin Khalili , Holger Karl , Artur Hecker

Resource allocation and task prioritisation are key problem domains in the fields of autonomous vehicles, networking, and cloud computing. The challenge in developing efficient and robust algorithms comes from the dynamic nature of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Niall Creech , Natalia Criado Pacheco , Simon Miles

In large-scale systems there are fundamental challenges when centralised techniques are used for task allocation. The number of interactions is limited by resource constraints such as on computation, storage, and network communication. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Niall Creech , Natalia Criado Pacheco , Simon Miles

Learning-based traffic signal control is typically optimized for average performance under a few nominal demand patterns, which can result in poor behavior under atypical traffic conditions. To address this, we develop a distributionally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Shuwei Pei , Joran Borger , Arda Kosay , Muhammed O. Sayin , Saeed Ahmed

Mobility-on-demand systems are transforming the way we think about the transportation of people and goods. Most research effort has been placed on scalability issues for systems with a large number of agents and simple pick-up/drop-off…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kaier Liang , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) services, such as taxi-like services, are promising applications. Rebalancing the vehicle locations against customer requests is a key challenge in the services because imbalance between the two worsens service…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Tomoki Nishi , Satoshi Koide , Keisuke Otaki , Ayano Okoso

We consider a probabilistic model for large-scale task allocation problems for multi-agent systems, aiming to determine an optimal deployment strategy that minimizes the overall transport cost. Specifically, we assign transportation agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Anqi Dong , Karl H. Johansson , Johan Karlsson

In this paper, we study the challenging problem of how to balance taxi distribution across a city in a dynamic ridesharing service. First, we introduce the architecture of the dynamic ridesharing system and formally define the performance…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Jiyao Li , Vicki H. Allan

With the advent of ride-sharing services, there is a huge increase in the number of people who rely on them for various needs. Most of the earlier approaches tackling this issue required handcrafted functions for estimating travel times and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Oscar de Lima , Hansal Shah , Ting-Sheng Chu , Brian Fogelson

In this paper a deep reinforcement based multi-agent path planning approach is introduced. The experiments are realized in a simulation environment and in this environment different multi-agent path planning problems are produced. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Mert Çetinkaya