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We study a natural information dissemination problem for multiple mobile agents in a bounded Euclidean space. Agents are placed uniformly at random in the $d$-dimensional space $\{-n, ..., n\}^d$ at time zero, and one of the agents holds a…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-04 Henry Lam , Zhenming Liu , Michael Mitzenmacher , Xiaorui Sun , Yajun Wang

Given a set of co-located mobile robots in an unknown anonymous graph, the robots must relocate themselves in distinct graph nodes to solve the dispersion problem. In this paper, we consider the dispersion problem for silent robots…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Bibhuti Das , Barun Gorain , Kaushik Mondal , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya , Supantha Pandit

A number of problems in communication systems demand the distributed allocation of network resources in order to provide better services, sampling and distribution methods. The solution to these issues is becoming more challenging due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pablo Echenique , Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno , Alexei Vazquez

The dispersion problem on graphs requires $k$ robots placed arbitrarily at the $n$ nodes of an anonymous graph, where $k \leq n$, to coordinate with each other to reach a final configuration in which each robot is at a distinct node of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Faizan Ali

We consider the problem of evacuating $k \geq 2$ mobile agents from a unit-sided equilateral triangle through an exit located at an unknown location on the perimeter of the triangle. The agents are initially located at the centroid of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Iman Bagheri , Lata Narayanan , Jaroslav Opatrny

We study the problem of patrolling the nodes of a network collaboratively by a team of mobile agents, such that each node of the network is visited by at least one agent once in every $I(n)$ time units, with the objective of minimizing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Shantanu Das , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Leszek A. Gasieniec

This paper introduces a multi-round interaction problem with privacy constraints between two agents that observe correlated data. The agents alternately share data with one another for a total of K rounds such that each agent initiates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Bahman Moraffah , Lalitha Sankar

We aim to connect two problems, namely, dispersion and load balancing. Both problems have already been studied over static as well as dynamic graphs. Though dispersion and load balancing share some common features, the tools used in solving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ashish Saxena , Tanvir Kaur , Kaushik Mondal

In the graph exploration problem, a team of mobile computational entities, called agents, arbitrarily positioned at some nodes of a graph, must cooperate so that each node is eventually visited by at least one agent. In the literature, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Stefan Dobrev , Paola Flocchini , Nicola Santoro

The dispersion problem on graphs asks $k\leq n$ robots placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node anonymous graph to reposition autonomously to reach a configuration in which each robot is on a distinct node of the graph. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

In this work, we propose an algorithm for solving exact sparse linear regression problems over a network in a distributed manner. Particularly, we consider the problem where data is stored among different computers or agents that seek to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Tu Anh-Nguyen , César A. Uribe

Accurately estimating the positions of multi-agent systems in indoor environments is challenging due to the lack of Global Navigation Satelite System (GNSS) signals. Noisy measurements of position and orientation can cause the integrated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Frida Viset , Rudy Helmons , Manon Kok

We consider cooperation among insects, modeled as cooperation between mobile robots on a graph. Within this setting, we consider the problem of mobile robot dispersion on graphs. The study of mobile robots on a graph is an interesting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Anisur Rahaman Molla , William K. Moses

This paper considers the problem of asynchronous distributed multi-agent optimization on server-based system architecture. In this problem, each agent has a local cost, and the goal for the agents is to collectively find a minimum of their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Shuo Liu , Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

In this paper, we consider distributed optimization problems where $n$ agents, each possessing a local cost function, collaboratively minimize the average of the local cost functions over a connected network. To solve the problem, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Kun Huang , Xiao Li , Andre Milzarek , Shi Pu , Junwen Qiu

We study the problem of collective tree exploration in which a team of $k$ mobile agents must collectively visit all nodes of an unknown tree in as few moves as possible. The agents all start from the root and discover adjacent edges as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Romain Cosson , Laurent Massoulié

This paper studies distributed resource allocation problem in multi-agent systems, where all the agents cooperatively minimize the sum of their cost functions with global resource constraints over stochastic communication networks. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Tie Ding , Shanying Zhu , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

Reaching agreement despite noise in communication is a fundamental problem in multi-agent systems. Here we study this problem under an idealized model, where it is assumed that agents can sense the general tendency in the system. More…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Amos Korman , Robin Vacus

Monitoring range queries over moving objects is essential to extensive location-based services. The challenge faced with these location-based services is having to process numerous concurrent range queries over a large volume of moving…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Hui Zhu , Ziqiang Yu

In this paper, we consider the partial gathering problem of mobile agents in synchronous dynamic bidirectional ring networks. When k agents are distributed in the network, the partial gathering problem requires, for a given positive integer…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Masahiro Shibata , Yuichi Sudo , Junya Nakamura , Yonghwan Kim