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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

Consider a network of $n$ single-server queues where tasks arrive independently at each server at rate $\lambda_n$. The servers are connected by a graph that is resampled at rate $\mu_n$ in a way that is symmetric with respect to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Diego Goldsztajn , Sem C. Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

The dynamic load balancing algorithm based on the monitoring server load, self-similar characteristics of passing traffic have to provide a statistically uniform load distribution on servers, high performance, fault tolerance and capacity,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Lyudmila Kirichenko , Igor Ivanisenko , Tamara Radivilova

Mobile agents have emerged as a powerful framework for solving fundamental graph problems in distributed settings in recent times. These agents, modelled as autonomous physical or software entities, possess local computation power, finite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Prabhat Kumar Chand , Anisur Rahaman Molla

In the dispersion problem, a set of $k$ co-located mobile robots must relocate themselves in distinct nodes of an unknown network. The network is modeled as an anonymous graph $G=(V,E)$, where the nodes of the graph are not labeled. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Barun Gorain , Partha Sarathi Mandal , Kaushik Mondal , Supantha Pandit

We develop a theory to measure the variance and covariance of probability distributions defined on the nodes of a graph, which takes into account the distance between nodes. Our approach generalizes the usual (co)variance to the setting of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-19 Karel Devriendt , Samuel Martin-Gutierrez , Renaud Lambiotte

We consider the mobile robot dispersion problem in the presence of faulty robots (crash-fault). Mobile robot dispersion consists of $k\leq n$ robots in an $n$-node anonymous graph. The goal is to ensure that regardless of the initial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Prabhat Kumar Chand , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Sumathi Sivasubramaniam

Most networks are not static objects, but instead they change over time. This observation has sparked rigorous research on temporal graphs within the last years. In temporal graphs, we have a fixed set of nodes and the connections between…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Davide Bilò , Sarel Cohen , Tobias Friedrich , Hans Gawendowicz , Nicolas Klodt , Pascal Lenzner , George Skretas

In this paper, we present a communication-free algorithm for distributed coverage of an arbitrary network by a group of mobile agents with local sensing capabilities. The network is represented as a graph, and the agents are arbitrarily…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-01 A. Yasin Yazicioglu , Magnus Egerstedt , Jeff S. Shamma

Consensus strategies find a variety of applications in distributed coordination and decision making in multi-agent systems. In particular, average consensus plays a key role in a number of applications and is closely associated with two…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Themistoklis Charalambous , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

In dynamic graphs, edges may be added or deleted in each synchronous round. Various connectivity models exist based on constraints on these changes. One well-known model is the $T$-Interval Connectivity model, where the graph remains…

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We study the problem of decentralized task offloading and load-balancing in a dense network with numerous devices and a set of edge servers. Solving this problem optimally is complicated due to the unknown network information and random…

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This paper initiates the study of the classic balanced graph partitioning problem from an online perspective: Given an arbitrary sequence of pairwise communication requests between $n$ nodes, with patterns that may change over time, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Chen Avin , Marcin Bienkowski , Andreas Loukas , Maciej Pacut , Stefan Schmid

Motivated by the increasing need for fast processing of large-scale graphs, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing, called $k$-machine model, where we have $k$ machines that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Khalid Hourani , Hartmut Klauck , William K. Moses , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

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

This paper proposes networked dynamics to solve resource allocation problems over time-varying multi-agent networks. The state of each agent represents the amount of used resources (or produced utilities) while the total amount of resources…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Alireza Aghasi , Mohammad Pirani , Ehsan Nekouei , Usman A. Khan , Themistoklis Charalambous

Graphs represent interconnected structures prevalent in a myriad of real-world scenarios. Effective graph analytics, such as graph learning methods, enables users to gain profound insights from graph data, underpinning various tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Zemin Liu , Yuan Li , Nan Chen , Qian Wang , Bryan Hooi , Bingsheng He

This paper considers gossiping among mobile agents in graphs: agents move on the graph and have to disseminate their initial information to every other agent. We focus on self-stabilizing solutions for the gossip problem, where agents may…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Sébastien Tixeuil

When a large collection of objects (e.g., robots, sensors, etc.) has to be deployed in a given environment, it is often required to plan a coordinated motion of the objects from their initial position to a final configuration enjoying some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Davide Bilò Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

This papers studies multi-agent (convex and \emph{nonconvex}) optimization over static digraphs. We propose a general distributed \emph{asynchronous} algorithmic framework whereby i) agents can update their local variables as well as…

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