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We discuss a crowd-based theory for describing the collective behavior in Complex Systems comprising multi-agent populations competing for a limited resource. These systems -- whose binary versions we refer to as B-A-R (Binary Agent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neil F. Johnson , Sehyo C. Choe , Sean Gourley , Timothy Jarrett , Pak Ming Hui

Living in groups brings benefits to many animals, such as a protection against predators and an improved capacity for sensing and making decisions while searching for resources in uncertain environments. A body of studies has shown how…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-23 Andrea Falcón-Cortés , Denis Boyer , Gabriel Ramos-Fernández

In Mean Field Games of Controls, the dynamics of the single agent is influenced not only by the distribution of the agents, as in the classical theory, but also by the distribution of their optimal strategies. In this paper, we study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Fabio Camilli , Claudio Marchi

We introduce a multi-agent model for exploring how selection of neighbours determines some aspects of order and cohesion in swarms. The model algorithm states that every agents' motion seeks for an optimal distance from the nearest…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-05-13 A. M. Calvão , E. Brigatti

Extracting the rules of real-world multi-agent behaviors is a current challenge in various scientific and engineering fields. Biological agents independently have limited observation and mechanical constraints; however, most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Keisuke Fujii , Naoya Takeishi , Yoshinobu Kawahara , Kazuya Takeda

Dynamical systems across many disciplines are modeled as interacting particles or agents, with interaction rules that depend on a very small number of variables (e.g. pairwise distances, pairwise differences of phases, etc...), functions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Jinchao Feng , Mauro Maggioni , Patrick Martin , Ming Zhong

Game theory has been one of the most successful quantitative concepts to describe social interactions, their strategical aspects, and outcomes. Among the payoff matrix quantifying the result of a social interaction, the interaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-22 Wenjian Yu , Dirk Helbing

For a binary choice problem, the spatial coordination of decisions in an agent community is investigated both analytically and by means of stochastic computer simulations. The individual decisions are based on different local information…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Frank Schweitzer , Joerg Zimmermann , Heinz Muehlenbein

This paper introduces and analyzes a new class of mean-field control (\textsc{MFC}) problems in which agents interact through a \emph{fixed but controllable} network structure. In contrast with the classical \textsc{MFC} framework -- where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Mao Fabrice Djete

This paper introduces a crowd modeling and motion control approach that employs diffusion adaptation within an adaptive network. In the network, nodes collaboratively address specific estimation problems while simultaneously moving as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Zirui Wan , Saeid Sanei

Criticality has been proposed as a key principle underlying complex behavior in biological and artificial systems; however, how criticality translates from individual dynamics to collective behavior remains unclear. We study this question…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-05 Nicolas Bessone , Erwan Plantec

The real world is awash with multi-agent problems that require collective action by self-interested agents, from the routing of packets across a computer network to the management of irrigation systems. Such systems have local incentives…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Michiel A. Bakker , Richard Everett , Laura Weidinger , Iason Gabriel , William S. Isaac , Joel Z. Leibo , Edward Hughes

Robotic shepherding is a bio-inspired approach to autonomously guiding a swarm of agents towards a desired location. The research area has earned increasing research interest recently due to the efficacy of controlling a large number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jing Liu , Hemant Singh , Saber Elsayed , Robert Hunjet , Hussein Abbass

In the real world, agents or entities are in a continuous state of interactions. These inter- actions lead to various types of complexity dynamics. One key difficulty in the study of complex agent interactions is the difficulty of modeling…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Aisha D. Farooqui , Muaz A. Niazi

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled the emergence of multi-agent systems where LLMs interact, collaborate, and make decisions in shared environments. While individual model behavior has been extensively studied,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Young-Min Cho , Sharath Chandra Guntuku , Lyle Ungar

Emergence and emergent behaviors are often defined as cases where changes in local interactions between agents at a lower level effectively changes what occurs in the higher level of the system (i.e., the whole swarm) and its properties.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ricardo Vega , Connor Mattson , Daniel S. Brown , Cameron Nowzari

Decision making can be difficult when there are many actors (or agents) who may be coordinating or competing to achieve their various ideas of the optimum outcome. Here I present a simple decision making model with an explicitly…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Paul Kinsler

We consider network aggregative games to model and study multi-agent populations in which each rational agent is influenced by the aggregate behavior of its neighbors, as specified by an underlying network. Specifically, we examine systems…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Francesca Parise , Sergio Grammatico , Basilio Gentile , John Lygeros

Collective, especially group-based, managerial decision making is crucial in organizations. Using an evolutionary theoretic approach to collective decision making, agent-based simulations were conducted to investigate how human collective…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Shelley D. Dionne , Hiroki Sayama , Francis J. Yammarino

In open agent systems, the set of agents that are cooperating or competing changes over time and in ways that are nontrivial to predict. For example, if collaborative robots were tasked with fighting wildfires, they may run out of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Adam Eck , Maulik Shah , Prashant Doshi , Leen-Kiat Soh