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Autonomous materials research systems allow scientists to fail smarter, learn faster, and spend less resources in their studies. As these systems grow in number, capability, and complexity, a new challenge arises - how will they work…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-21 A. Gilad Kusne , Austin McDannald

Multiagent coordination in cooperative multiagent systems (MASs) has been widely studied in both fixed-agent repeated interaction setting and the static social learning framework. However, two aspects of dynamics in real-world multiagent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Hongyao Tang , Li Wang , Zan Wang , Tim Baarslag , Jianye Hao

Computer simulation is finding a role in an increasing number of scientific disciplines, concomitant with the rise in available computing power. Realizing this inevitably requires access to computational power beyond the desktop, making use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Stefan J. Zasada , Peter V. Coveney

In multi-agent debate (MAD) systems, performance gains are often reported; however, because the debate protocol (e.g., number of agents, rounds, and aggregation rule) is typically held fixed while model-related factors vary, it is difficult…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ramtin Zargari Marandi

The number of railway service disruptions has been increasing owing to intensification of natural disasters. In addition, abrupt changes in social situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic require railway companies to modify the traffic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shumpei Kubosawa , Takashi Onishi , Makoto Sakahara , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Dynamic resource allocation problems are ubiquitous, arising in inventory management, order fulfillment, online advertising, and other applications. We initially focus on one of the simplest models of online resource allocation: the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Omar Besbes , Yash Kanoria , Akshit Kumar

This study explores the problem of Multi-Agent Path Finding with continuous and stochastic travel times whose probability distribution is unknown. Our purpose is to manage a group of automated robots that provide package delivery services…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Atsuyoshi Kita , Nobuhiro Suenari , Masashi Okada , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Recently, there has been tremendous efforts by network operators and equipment vendors to adopt intelligence and openness in the next generation radio access network (RAN). The goal is to reach a RAN that can self-optimize in a highly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Shahram Mollahasani , Melike Erol-Kantarci , Rodney Wilson

We introduce robustness in \textit{restless multi-armed bandits} (RMABs), a popular model for constrained resource allocation among independent stochastic processes (arms). Nearly all RMAB techniques assume stochastic dynamics are precisely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Jackson A. Killian , Lily Xu , Arpita Biswas , Milind Tambe

As large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems scale to handle increasingly complex tasks, balancing structural stability and dynamic adaptability becomes increasingly challenging. Existing systems typically adopt either…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haoran Li , Shulun Chen , Shaoyuan Sun , Hanchen Wang

Modern multi-access 5G+ networks provide mobile terminals with additional capacity, improving network stability and performance. However, in highly mobile environments such as vehicular networks, supporting multi-access connectivity remains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Gregorio Maglione , Veselin Rakocevic , Markus Amend , Touraj Soleymani

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of supply chains and the role of digital management to react to dynamic changes in the environment. In this work, we focus on developing dynamic inventory ordering policies for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Julien Siems , Maximilian Schambach , Sebastian Schulze , Johannes S. Otterbach

The Dynamic Task Assignment Problem (DTAP) concerns matching resources to tasks in real time while minimizing some objectives, like resource costs or task cycle time. In this work, we consider a DTAP variant where every task is a case…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Riccardo Lo Bianco , Willem van Jaarsveld , Jeroen Middelhuis , Luca Begnardi , Remco Dijkman

Conventional control of fluid systems does not consider system-wide knowledge for optimising energy efficient operation. Distributed control of fluid systems combines reliable local control of components while using system-wide cooperation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Kevin T. Logan , J. Marius Stürmer , Tim M. Müller , Peter F. Pelz

Data intensive applications often involve the analysis of large datasets that require large amounts of compute and storage resources. While dedicated compute and/or storage farms offer good task/data throughput, they suffer low resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-08-27 Ioan Raicu , Yong Zhao , Ian Foster , Alex Szalay

Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents capable of autonomous learning and independent decision-making hold great promise for addressing complex challenges across various critical infrastructure domains, including transportation, energy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Hepeng Li , Yuhong Liu , Jun Yan , Jie Gao , Xiaoou Yang

This paper proposes a new formulation for the dynamic resource allocation problem, which converts the traditional MDP model with known parameters and no capacity constraints to a new model with uncertain parameters and a resource capacity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Onur Demiray , Evrim Didem Güneş , Lerzan Örmeci

Deep Research Agents (DRAs) are promising agentic systems that gather and synthesize information to support research across domains such as financial decision-making, medical analysis, and scientific discovery. Despite recent improvements…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Haotian Zhai , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Pratik Patil , Liu Leqi

We study capacity- and budget-constrained multi-agent MDPs (CB-MA-MDPs), a class that captures many maintenance and scheduling tasks in which each agent can irreversibly fail and a planner must decide (i) when to apply a restorative action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Manav Vora , Ilan Shomorony , Melkior Ornik

Robust planning in interactive scenarios requires predicting the uncertain future to make risk-aware decisions. Unfortunately, due to long-tail safety-critical events, the risk is often under-estimated by finite-sampling approximations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Haruki Nishimura , Jean Mercat , Blake Wulfe , Rowan McAllister , Adrien Gaidon