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The field of Multi-Agent System (MAS) is an active area of research within Artificial Intelligence, with an increasingly important impact in industrial and other real-world applications. Within a MAS, autonomous agents interact to pursue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Ferdinando Fioretto , Enrico Pontelli , William Yeoh

Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is a powerful framework for representing and solving distributed combinatorial problems, where the variables of the problem are owned by different agents. Many multi-agent problems include…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Tal Grinshpoun , Alon Grubshtein , Roie Zivan , Arnon Netzer , Amnon Meisels

For efficiency reasons, manycore systems are increasingly heterogeneous, which makes the mapping of complex workloads a key problem with a high optimization potential. Constraints express the application requirements like which core type to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Volker Wenzel , Lars Bauer , Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat , Jörg Henkel

The Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem (DCOP) formulation is a powerful tool to model multi-agent coordination problems that are distributed by nature. The formulation is suitable for problems where variables are discrete and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Khoi D. Hoang , William Yeoh , Makoto Yokoo , Zinovi Rabinovich

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) have been widely used to coordinate interactions (i.e. constraints) in cooperative multi-agent systems. The traditional DCOP model assumes that variables owned by the agents can take only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Amit Sarker , Abdullahil Baki Arif , Moumita Choudhury , Md. Mosaddek Khan

The Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem (DCOP) formulation is a powerful tool to model cooperative multi-agent problems that need to be solved distributively. A core assumption of existing approaches is that DCOP solutions can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ben Rachmut , Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou , Nimrod Meir Weinstein , Roie Zivan , William Yeoh

Multi-agent systems (MAS) is able to characterize the behavior of individual agent and the interaction between agents. Thus, it motivates us to leverage the distributed constraint optimization problem (DCOP), a framework of modeling MAS, to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Peibo Duan , Guoqiang Mao , Changsheng Zhang , Bin Zhang

The field of Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) has gained momentum, thanks to its suitability in capturing complex problems (e.g., multi-agent coordination and resource allocation problems) that are naturally distributed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Tiep Le , Enrico Pontelli , Tran Cao Son , William Yeoh

Many multi-agent coordination problems can be represented as DCOPs. Motivated by task allocation in disaster response, we extend standard DCOP models to consider uncertain task rewards where the outcome of completing a task depends on its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Feng Wu , Nicholas R. Jennings

This paper explores the use of Answer Set Programming (ASP) in solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs). The paper provides the following novel contributions: (1) It shows how one can formulate DCOPs as logic programs;…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Tiep Le , Tran Cao Son , Enrico Pontelli , William Yeoh

This paper addresses the limitations of a single agent in task decomposition and collaboration during complex task execution, and proposes a multi-agent architecture for modular task decomposition and dynamic collaboration based on large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shuaidong Pan , Di Wu

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are a frequently used framework in which a set of independent agents choose values from their respective discrete domains to maximize their utility. Although this formulation is typically…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-18 K. M. Merajul Arefin , Mashrur Rashik , Saaduddin Mahmud , Md. Mosaddek Khan

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are an important framework for modeling coordinated decision-making problems in multi-agent systems with a set of discrete variables. Later works have extended DCOPs to model problems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Saaduddin Mahmud , Md. Mosaddek Khan , Moumita Choudhury , Long Tran-Thanh , Nicholas R. Jennings

In this paper, we propose two novel decentralized optimization frameworks for multi-agent nonlinear optimal control problems in robotics. The aim of this work is to suggest architectures that inherit the computational efficiency and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Augustinos D. Saravanos , Yuichiro Aoyama , Hongchang Zhu , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Large language model (LLM) agents have shown increasing promise for collaborative task completion. However, existing multi-agent frameworks often rely on static workflows, fixed roles, and limited inter-agent communication, reducing their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chengxuan Xia , Qianye Wu , Sixuan Tian , Yilun Hao

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are an important subclass of combinatorial optimization problems, where information and controls are distributed among multiple autonomous agents. Previously, Machine Learning (ML) has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Yanchen Deng , Shufeng Kong , Bo An

Coordinating multiple autonomous agents in shared environments under decentralized conditions is a long-standing challenge in robotics and artificial intelligence. This work addresses the problem of decentralized goal assignment for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Murad Ismayilov , Edwin Meriaux , Shuo Wen , Gregory Dudek

Techniques for coordination of multi-agent systems are vast and varied, often utilizing purpose-built solvers or controllers with tight coupling to the types of systems involved or the coordination goal. In this paper, we introduce a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Tyler Hanks , Hans Riess , Samuel Cohen , Trevor Gross , Matthew Hale , James Fairbanks

DCOP algorithms usually rely on interaction graphs to operate. In open and dynamic environments, such methods need to address how this interaction graph is generated and maintained among agents. Existing methods require reconstructing the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Brighter Agyemang , Fenghui Ren , Jun Yan

Language model (LM)-based agents have demonstrated promising capabilities in automating complex tasks from natural language instructions, yet they continue to struggle with long-horizon planning and reasoning. To address this, we propose an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wenyi Wu , Sibo Zhu , Kun Zhou , Biwei Huang
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