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Accurate traffic prediction is a key task for intelligent transportation systems. The core difficulty lies in accurately modeling the complex spatial-temporal dependencies in traffic data. In recent years, improvements in network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sen Shi , Zhichao Zhang , Yangfan He

In this paper, we develop a knowledge-assisted deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm to design wireless schedulers in the fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks with time-sensitive traffic. Since the scheduling policy is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Zhouyou Gu , Changyang She , Wibowo Hardjawana , Simon Lumb , David McKechnie , Todd Essery , Branka Vucetic

In latency-sensitive applications, efficient task scheduling is crucial for maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) while meeting strict timing constraints. This paper addresses the challenge of scheduling periodic tasks structured as directed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ashutosh Shankar , Astha Kumari

Various mobile applications that comprise dependent tasks are gaining widespread popularity and are increasingly complex. These applications often have low-latency requirements, resulting in a significant surge in demand for computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jiagang Liu , Yun Mi , Xinyu Zhang , Xiaocui Li

Many scientific workflows can be modeled as a Directed Acyclic Graph (henceforth mentioned as DAG) where the nodes represent individual tasks, and the directed edges represent data and control flow dependency between two tasks. Due to the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Atharva Tekawade , Suman Banerjee

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms and evolution strategies (ES) have been applied to various tasks, showing excellent performances. These have the opposite properties, with DRL having good sample efficiency and poor stability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Kyunghyun Lee , Byeong-Uk Lee , Ukcheol Shin , In So Kweon

This paper addresses the challenge of multi-agent path planning for efficient data collection in dynamic, uncertain environments, exemplified by autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) navigating the Gulf of Mexico. Traditional greedy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Ted Edward Holmberg , Elias Ioup , Mahdi Abdelguerfi

Live video streaming has become a mainstay as a standard communication solution for several enterprises worldwide. To efficiently stream high-quality live video content to a large amount of offices, companies employ distributed video…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Stefanos Antaris , Dimitrios Rafailidis

An efficient and reliable multi-agent decision-making system is highly demanded for the safe and efficient operation of connected autonomous vehicles in intelligent transportation systems. Current researches mainly focus on the Deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Qi Liu , Zirui Li , Xueyuan Li , Jingda Wu , Shihua Yuan

Autonomous driving in multi-agent dynamic traffic scenarios is challenging: the behaviors of road users are uncertain and are hard to model explicitly, and the ego-vehicle should apply complicated negotiation skills with them, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Peide Cai , Hengli Wang , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu

We are interested in the optimal scheduling of a collection of multi-component application jobs in an edge computing system that consists of geo-distributed edge computing nodes connected through a wide area network. The scheduling and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Zhi Cao , Honggang Zhang , Yu Cao , Benyuan Liu

Modern logistics networks generate rich operational data streams at every warehouse node and transportation lane -- from order timestamps and routing records to shipping manifests -- yet predicting delivery delays remains predominantly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhiming Xue , Menghao Huo , Yujue Wang

Workflow scheduling is a long-studied problem in parallel and distributed computing (PDC), aiming to efficiently utilize compute resources to meet user's service requirements. Recently proposed scheduling methods leverage the low response…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Shreshth Tuli , Giuliano Casale , Nicholas R. Jennings

In real-time strategy (RTS) game artificial intelligence research, various multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) algorithms are widely and actively used nowadays. Most of the research is based on StarCraft II environment because…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Won Joon Yun , Sungwon Yi , Joongheon Kim

Edge computing plays an essential role in the vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks, where vehicles offload their intensive computation tasks to the road-side units for saving energy and reduce the latency. This paper designs the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xinyu You , Haojie Yan , Yuedong Xu , Lifeng Wang , Liangui Dai

In the past few years, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become a valuable solution to automatically learn efficient resource management strategies in complex networks. In many scenarios, the learning task is performed in the Cloud,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Seyyidahmed Lahmer , Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Zanella

Collaborative edge computing uses edge nodes in different locations to execute tasks, necessitating dynamic task offloading decisions to maintain low latency and high reliability, especially under unpredictable node failures. Although deep…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hao Guo , Kaixiang Xv , Ziwu Ge , Lei Yang

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently emerged as a promising tool for Dynamic Algorithm Configuration (DAC), enabling evolutionary algorithms to adapt their parameters online rather than relying on static tuned configurations.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Andrea Mencaroni , Robbert Reijnen , Yingqian Zhang , Dieter Claeys

Vehicular clouds (VCs) play a crucial role in the Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) ecosystem by securing essential computing resources for a wide range of tasks. This paPertackles the intricacies of resource provisioning in dynamic VCs for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Bingshuo Guo , Minghui Liwang , Xiaoyu Xia , Li Li , Zhenzhen Jiao , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Xianbin Wang

Edge/fog computing, as a distributed computing paradigm, satisfies the low-latency requirements of ever-increasing number of IoT applications and has become the mainstream computing paradigm behind IoT applications. However, because large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhiyu Wang , Mohammad Goudarzi , Mingming Gong , Rajkumar Buyya