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Agentic AI represents a significant shift in how intelligence is applied within organizations, moving beyond AI-assisted tools toward autonomous systems capable of reasoning, decision-making, and coordinated action across workflows. As…

We propose the study of computing the Shapley value for a new class of cooperative games that we call budgeted games, and investigate in particular knapsack budgeted games, a version modeled after the classical knapsack problem. In these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-19 Smriti Bhagat , Anthony Kim , S. Muthukrishnan , Udi Weinsberg

Predictive Process Analytics is becoming an essential aid for organizations, providing online operational support of their processes. However, process stakeholders need to be provided with an explanation of the reasons why a given process…

In recent years, a variety of powerful LLM-based agentic systems have been applied to automate complex tasks through task orchestration. However, existing orchestration methods still face key challenges, including strategy collapse under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mingda Zhang , Tiesunlong Shen , Haoran Luo , Wenjin Liu , Zikai Xiao , Erik Cambria , Xiaoying Tang

The emergence of Agentic AI is fundamentally transforming how software is designed, developed, and maintained. Traditional software development methodologies such as Agile, Kanban, ShapeUp, etc, were originally designed for human-centric…

Over the recent years, Shapley value (SV), a solution concept from cooperative game theory, has found numerous applications in data analytics (DA). This paper presents the first comprehensive study of SV used throughout the DA workflow,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hong Lin , Shixin Wan , Zhongle Xie , Ke Chen , Meihui Zhang , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen

Agentic AI systems, which leverage multiple autonomous agents and large language models (LLMs), are increasingly used to address complex, multi-step tasks. The safety, security, and functionality of these systems are critical, especially in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Edoardo Allegrini , Ananth Shreekumar , Z. Berkay Celik

In allocation problems, a given set of goods are assigned to agents in such a way that the social welfare is maximised, that is, the largest possible global worth is achieved. When goods are indivisible, it is possible to use money…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Francesco Lupia , Angelo Mendicelli , Andrea Ribichini , Francesco Scarcello , Marco Schaerf

Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with external tools via multi-agent systems offers a promising new paradigm for decomposing and solving complex problems. However, training these systems remains notoriously difficult due to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yanming Li , Xuelin Zhang , WenJie Lu , Ziye Tang , Maodong Wu , Haotian Luo , Tongtong Wu , Zijie Peng , Hongze Mi , Yibo Feng , Naiqiang Tan , Chao Huang , Hong Chen , Li Shen

Agent systems based on large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in complex reasoning tasks, but building efficient and generalizable workflows remains a major challenge. Most existing approaches rely on manually designed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yanbo Wang , Zixiang Xu , Yue Huang , Xiangqi Wang , Zirui Song , Lang Gao , Chenxi Wang , Xiangru Tang , Yue Zhao , Arman Cohan , Xiangliang Zhang , Xiuying Chen

The primary goal of this study is to analyze agentic workflows in education according to the proposed four major technological paradigms: reflection, planning, tool use, and multi-agent collaboration. We critically examine the role of AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Firuz Kamalov , David Santandreu Calonge , Linda Smail , Dilshod Azizov , Dimple R. Thadani , Theresa Kwong , Amara Atif

It is evident that, currently, generative models are surpassed in quality by human professionals. However, with the advancements in Artificial Intelligence, this gap will narrow, leading to scenarios where individuals who have dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Alex Glinsky , Alexey Sokolsky

Multi-agent frameworks powered by large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated great success in automated planning and task execution. However, the effective adjustment of agentic workflows during execution has not been well studied. An…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Boye Niu , Yiliao Song , Kai Lian , Yifan Shen , Yu Yao , Kun Zhang , Tongliang Liu

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant progress in understanding complex natural language. One important application of LLM is LLM-based AI Agent, which leverages the ability of LLM as well as external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zelong Li , Shuyuan Xu , Kai Mei , Wenyue Hua , Balaji Rama , Om Raheja , Hao Wang , He Zhu , Yongfeng Zhang

Additive feature explanations using Shapley values have become popular for providing transparency into the relative importance of each feature to an individual prediction of a machine learning model. While Shapley values provide a unique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Thomas W. Campbell , Heinrich Roder , Robert W. Georgantas , Joanna Roder

The rapid development of interactive and autonomous AI systems signals our entry into the agentic era. Training and evaluating agents on complex agentic tasks such as software engineering and computer use requires not only efficient model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Lei Zhang , Mouxiang Chen , Ruisheng Cao , Jiawei Chen , Fan Zhou , Yiheng Xu , Jiaxi Yang , Zeyao Ma , Liang Chen , Changwei Luo , Kai Zhang , Fan Yan , KaShun Shum , Jiajun Zhang , Zeyu Cui , Feng Hu , Junyang Lin , Binyuan Hui , Min Yang

GraphFlow is a visual workflow system designed to improve the reliability of agentic AI automation in multi-step, mission-critical processes. In these workflows, small errors compound rapidly: under an idealized model of independent steps,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Drewry H. Morris , Luis Valles , Reza Hosseini Ghomi

From software development to robot control, modern agentic systems decompose complex objectives into a sequence of subtasks and choose a set of specialized AI agents to complete them. We formalize agentic workflows as directed acyclic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guruprerana Shabadi , Rajeev Alur

In this dissertation, we analyze the computational properties of game-theoretic centrality measures. The key idea behind game-theoretic approach to network analysis is to treat nodes as players in a cooperative game, where the value of each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Piotr Lech Szczepański

Lloyd Shapley's cooperative value allocation theory stands as a central concept in game theory, extensively utilized across various domains to distribute resources, evaluate individual contributions, and ensure fairness. The Shapley value…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Tongseok Lim