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Reactive synthesis is the process of generating correct controllers from temporal logic specifications. Classical LTL reactive synthesis handles (propositional) LTL as a specification language. Boolean abstractions allow reducing LTLt…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Andoni Rodríguez , Felipe Gorostiaga , César Sánchez

Graphs are widely used for modeling relational data in real-world scenarios, such as social networks and urban computing. Existing LLM-based graph analysis approaches either integrate graph neural networks (GNNs) for specific machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xin Li , Qizhi Chu , Yubin Chen , Yang Liu , Yaoqi Liu , Zekai Yu , Weize Chen , Chen Qian , Chuan Shi , Cheng Yang

Two traditional paradigms are often used to describe the behavior of agents in multi-agent complex systems. In the first one, agents are considered to be fully rational and systems are seen as multi-player games. In the second one, agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Mickael Randour

We study a dynamic version of multi-agent path finding problem (called D-MAPF) where existing agents may leave and new agents may join the team at different times. We introduce a new method to solve D-MAPF based on conflict-resolution. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Basem Atiq , Volkan Patoglu , Esra Erdem

We introduce and study the multi-agent stochastic shortest path (MSSP) problem, in which $k$ agents strive to reach a target state, aiming to minimize the expected time to reach the target by any agent. We analyze the computational and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Martin Jonáš , Antonín Kučera , Vojtěch Kůr , Jan Mačák , Vojtěch Řehák

Game-theoretic motion planners are a powerful tool for the control of interactive multi-agent robot systems. Indeed, contrary to predict-then-plan paradigms, game-theoretic planners do not ignore the interactive nature of the problem, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Makram Chahine , Roya Firoozi , Wei Xiao , Mac Schwager , Daniela Rus

Consider a dynamic task allocation problem, where tasks are unknowingly distributed over an environment. This paper considers each task comprised of two sequential subtasks: detection and completion, where each subtask can only be carried…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Mehdi Dadvar , Saeed Moazami , Harley R. Myler , Hassan Zargarzadeh

The multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem is a combinatorial search problem that aims at finding paths for multiple agents (e.g., robots) in an environment (e.g., an autonomous warehouse) such that no two agents collide with each other,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Aysu Bogatarkan , Esra Erdem

Planning methods with high adaptability to dynamic environments are crucial for the development of autonomous and versatile robots. We propose a method for leveraging a large language model (GPT-4o) to automatically generate networks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Reo Abe , Akifumi Ito , Kanata Takayasu , Satoshi Kurihara

We consider a variation of the Cops and Robber game where the cops can only see the robber when the distance between them is at most a fixed parameter $\ell$. We consider the basic consequences of this definition for some simple graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-25 N. E. Clarke , D. Cox , C. Duffy , D. Dyer , S. Fitzpatrick , M. E. Messinger

Mobile robots are often tasked with repeatedly navigating through an environment whose traversability changes over time. These changes may exhibit some hidden structure, which can be learned. Many studies consider reactive algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Florence Tsang , Tristan Walker , Ryan A. MacDonald , Armin Sadeghi , Stephen L. Smith

Multi-agent planning (MAP) approaches have been typically conceived for independent or loosely-coupled problems to enhance the benefits of distributed planning between autonomous agents as solving this type of problems require less…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Alejandro Torreño , Eva Onaindia , Óscar Sapena

We consider the synthesis of control policies from temporal logic specifications for robots that interact with multiple dynamic environment agents. Each environment agent is modeled by a Markov chain whereas the robot is modeled by a finite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-03-07 Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn , Alphan Ulusoy , Calin Belta , Emilio Frazzoli , Daniela Rus

The problem of planning a set of paths for the coalition of robots (agents) with different capabilities is considered in the paper. Some agents can modify the environment by destructing the obstacles thus allowing the other ones to shorten…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev

Multi-step planning has been widely employed to enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) on downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks, which decomposes the original task into multiple subtasks and guide LLMs to solve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zepeng Ding , Dixuan Wang , Ziqin Luo , Guochao Jiang , Deqing Yang , Jiaqing Liang

Multi Agent Path Finding (MAPF) requires identification of conflict free paths for agents which could be point-sized or with dimensions. In this paper, we propose an approach for MAPF for spatially-extended agents. These find application in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Shyni Thomas , M. Narasimha Murty

On an assigned graph, the problem of Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) consists in finding paths for multiple agents, avoiding collisions. Finding the minimum-length solution is known to be NP-hard, and computation times grows exponentially…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Stefano Ardizzoni , Irene Saccani , Luca Consolini , Marco Locatelli

Enhancing simulation environments to replicate real-world driver behavior, i.e., more humanlike sim agents, is essential for developing autonomous vehicle technology. In the context of highway merging, previous works have studied the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Dustin Holley , Jovin D'sa , Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub , Gibran Ali

In this paper we present a layered approach for multi-agent control problem, decomposed into three stages, each building upon the results of the previous one. First, a high-level plan for a coarse abstraction of the system is computed,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Emily Clement , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert , Philipp Schlehuber-Caissier

Students benefit from math problems contextualized to their interests. Large language models (LLMs) offer promise for efficient personalization at scale. However, LLM-generated personalized problems may often have problems such as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fareya Ikram , Nischal Ashok Kumar , Junyang Lu , Hunter McNichols , Candace Walkington , Neil Heffernan , Andrew S. Lan