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Training multi-agent systems (MAS) to achieve realistic equilibria gives us a useful tool to understand and model real-world systems. We consider a general sum partially observable Markov game where agents of different types share a single…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Nelson Vadori , Sumitra Ganesh , Prashant Reddy , Manuela Veloso

Advances in artificial intelligence often stem from the development of new environments that abstract real-world situations into a form where research can be done conveniently. This paper contributes such an environment based on ideas…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Michael Bradley Johanson , Edward Hughes , Finbarr Timbers , Joel Z. Leibo

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown significant promise in automated portfolio management; however, effectively balancing risk and return remains a central challenge, as many models fail to adapt to dynamically changing market conditions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jiayi Chen , Jing Li , Guiling Wang

In many applications involving multi-agent system (MAS), it is imperative to test an experimental (Exp) autonomous agent in a high-fidelity simulator prior to its deployment to production, to avoid unexpected losses in the real-world. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Song Wei , Andrea Coletta , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Tucker Balch

Emergent behavior that appears at a given level of organization may be characterized as arising from an organizationally lower level in such a way that it transcends a mere increase in the behavioral degree of complexity. It is therefore to…

General Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Gerald E. Marsh

Self-organization is a process where a stable pattern is formed by the cooperative behavior between parts of an initially disordered system without external control or influence. It has been introduced to multi-agent systems as an internal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Jieting Luo , Beishui Liao , John-Jules Meyer

In this paper, a novel decentralized intelligent adaptive optimal strategy has been developed to solve the pursuit-evasion game for massive Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) under uncertain environment. Existing strategies for pursuit-evasion games…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Zejian Zhou , Hao Xu

This paper studies the problem of safe and optimal continuum deformation of a large-scale multi-agent system (MAS). We present a novel approach for MAS continuum deformation coordination that aims to achieve safe and efficient agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Harshvardhan Uppaluru , Hossein Rastgoftar

We are interested in the problem of multiagent systems development for risk detecting and emergency response in an uncertain and partially perceived environment. The evaluation of the current situation passes by three stages inside the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Fahem Kebair , Frédéric Serin , Cyrille Bertelle

We consider the problem of how to design large decentralized multi-agent systems (MAS's) in an automated fashion, with little or no hand-tuning. Our approach has each agent run a reinforcement learning algorithm. This converts the problem…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David H. Wolpert , Kevin R. Wheeler , Kagan Tumer

Accurate local state measurement is important to ensure the reliable operation of distributed multi-agent systems (MAS). Existing fault-tolerant control strategies generally assume the sensor faults to be bounded and uncorrelated. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Shan Zuo , Yi Zhang , Yichao Wang

We focus on how individual behavior that complies with social norms interferes with performance-based incentive mechanisms in organizations with multiple distributed decision-making agents. We model social norms to emerge from interactions…

General Economics · Economics 2021-02-25 Ravshanbek Khodzhimatov , Stephan Leitner , Friederike Wall

In many situations, communication between agents is a critical component of cooperative multi-agent systems, however, it can be difficult to learn or evolve. In this paper, we investigate a simple way in which the emergence of communication…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Dylan Cope , Peter McBurney

An agent-based computational economical toy model for the emergence of money from the initial barter trading, inspired by Menger's postulate that money can spontaneously emerge in a commodity exchange economy, is extensively studied. The…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-12-09 Paweł Oświęcimka , Stanisław Drożdż , Robert Gębarowski , Andrzej Z. Górski , Jarosław Kwapień

This study explores the emergence of counter-inferential behavior in natural and artificial cognitive systems, that is, patterns in which agents misattribute empirical success or suppress adaptation, leading to epistemic rigidity or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Serge Dolgikh

Large Language Model Powered Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) are increasingly employed to automate complex real-world problems, such as programming and scientific discovery. Despite their promising, MASs are not without their flaws. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yu Ge , Linna Xie , Zhong Li , Yu Pei , Tian Zhang

The Abstraction Refinement Model has been widely adopted since it was firstly proposed many decades ago. This powerful model of software evolution process brings important properties into the system under development, properties such as the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Mohamed Toufik Ailane , Christoph Knieke , Andreas Rausch

"Emergence", the phenomenon where a complex system displays properties, behaviours, or dynamics not trivially reducible to its constituent elements, is one of the defining properties of complex systems. Recently, there has been a concerted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Thomas F. Varley

Nowadays, we are surrounded by a large number of complex phenomena ranging from rumor spreading, social norms formation to rise of new economic trends and disruption of traditional businesses. To deal with such phenomena,Complex Adaptive…

Emergency situations in scheduling systems often trigger local functional failures that undermine system stability and even cause system collapse. Existing methods primarily rely on robust scheduling or reactive scheduling, handling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shixing Zhao , Zheng Si , Pengpeng Ouyang , Zhengqing Hu , Wanqi Zhu , Dong Chen , Yibo Guo , Mingliang Xu