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Emerging reconfigurable optical communication technologies allow to enhance datacenter topologies with demand-aware links optimized towards traffic patterns. This paper studies the algorithmic problem of jointly optimizing topology and…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Wenkai Dai , Michael Dinitz , Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Long Luo , Stefan Schmid

This paper proposes a multiagent based bi-level operation framework for the low-carbon demand management in distribution networks considering the carbon emission allowance on the demand side. In the upper level, the aggregate load agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Jichen Zhang , Linwei Sang , Yinliang Xu , Hongbin Sun

The distributed non-smooth resource allocation problem over multi-agent networks is studied in this paper, where each agent is subject to globally coupled network resource constraints and local feasibility constraints described in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Xiaohong Nian , Fan Li , Dongxin Liu

Ride-sourcing platforms enable an on-demand shared transport service by solving decision problems often related to customer matching, pricing and vehicle routing. These problems have been frequently represented using aggregated mathematical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Renos Karamanis , He-in Cheong , Simon Hu , Marc Stettler , Panagiotis Angeloudis

We formulate computation offloading as a decentralized decision-making problem with autonomous agents. We design an interaction mechanism that incentivizes agents to align private and system goals by balancing between competition and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jing Tan , Ramin Khalili , Holger Karl , Artur Hecker

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics, requiring the computation of collision-free paths for multiple agents moving from their respective start to goal positions. Coordinating multiple agents in a shared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jinhao Liang , Jacob K. Christopher , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto

Routing strategies for traffics and vehicles have been historically studied. However, in the absence of considering drivers' preferences, current route planning algorithms are developed under ideal situations where all drivers are expected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Jizhe Zhou , Qiwei Chen , Qin Li

Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have been used to address the challenging problems in the offloading process of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET). More recently, they have been utilized to improve the dissemination of high-definition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jeffrey Redondo , Nauman Aslam , Juan Zhang , Zhenhui Yuan

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

As electric vehicle (EV) technologies become mature, EV has been rapidly adopted in modern transportation systems, and is expected to provide future autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) service with economic and societal benefits. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Sihong He , Lynn Pepin , Guang Wang , Desheng Zhang , Fei Miao

This paper focuses on two commonly used path assignment policies for agents traversing a congested network: self-interested routing, and system-optimum routing. In the self-interested routing policy each agent selects a path that optimizes…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Guni Sharon , Michael Albert , Tarun Rambha , Stephen Boyles , Peter Stone

We study the problem of online Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery (MAPD), where a team of agents must repeatedly serve dynamically appearing tasks on a shared map. Existing online methods either rely on simple heuristics, which result in poor…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yue Zhang , Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor , Pierre Le Bodic , Peter J. Stuckey

In many reinforcement learning (RL) applications, we want policies that reach desired states and then keep the controlled system within an acceptable region around the desired states over an indefinite period of time. This latter objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Brahma S. Pavse , Matthew Zurek , Yudong Chen , Qiaomin Xie , Josiah P. Hanna

We consider an extension of the rollout algorithm that applies to constrained deterministic dynamic programming, including challenging combinatorial optimization problems. The algorithm relies on a suboptimal policy, called base heuristic.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Dimitri Bertsekas

Congestion games model a wide variety of real-world resource congestion problems, such as selfish network routing, traffic route guidance in congested areas, taxi fleet optimization and crowd movement in busy areas. However, existing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Asrar Ahmed , Pradeep Varakantham , Shih-Fen Cheng

This paper studies the optimal resource allocation problem within a multi-agent network composed of both autonomous agents and humans. The main challenge lies in the globally coupled constraints that link the decisions of autonomous agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Yichen Yao , Ryan Mbagna Nanko , Yue Wang , Xuan Wang

This paper addresses the sweep coverage problem of multi-agent systems in uncertain regions. A new formulation of distributed sweep coverage is proposed to cooperatively complete the workload in the uncertain region. Specifically, each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Chao Zhai

Platooning connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) provide significant benefits in terms of traffic efficiency and fuel economy. However, most existing platooning systems assume the availability of pre-determined plans, which is not…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Xi Xiong , Maonan Wang , Dengfeng Sun , Li Jin

The multi-path Traveling Salesman Problem with stochastic travel costs arises in hybrid vehicle routing applications designed for Smart City and City Logistics, where multiple paths exist between each pair of locations. Travel times along…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Xiaochen Chou , Ludovica Di Marco , Enza Messina

Avoiding collisions is one of the vital tasks for systems of autonomous mobile agents. We focus on the problem of finding continuous coordinated paths for multiple mobile disc agents in a 2-d environment with polygonal obstacles. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Pavel Janovský , Michal Čáp , Jiří Vokřínek