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Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in tool manipulation for complex task-solving. However, existing paradigms such as ReAct rely on sequential reasoning and execution, failing to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Jiaqi Wu , Qinlao Zhao , Zefeng Chen , Kai Qin , Yifei Zhao , Xueqian Wang , Yuhang Yao

In multi-agent applications such as surveillance and logistics, fleets of mobile agents are often expected to coordinate and safely visit a large number of goal locations as efficiently as possible. The multi-agent planning problem in these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

We study the problem of minimizing the resource capacity of autonomous agents cooperating to achieve a shared task. More specifically, we consider high-level planning for a team of homogeneous agents that operate under resource constraints…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Murat Cubuktepe , František Blahoudek , Ufuk Topcu

Operators of Electric Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (E-AMoD) fleets need to make several real-time decisions such as matching available vehicles to ride requests, rebalancing idle vehicles to areas of high demand, and charging vehicles to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Aaryan Singhal , Daniele Gammelli , Justin Luke , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Dominik Helmreich , Marco Pavone

Credit assignment is a critical problem in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), aiming to identify agents' marginal contributions for optimizing cooperative policies. Current credit assignment methods typically assume synchronous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yongheng Liang , Hejun Wu , Haitao Wang , Hao Cai

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is concerned with planning collision-free paths for a team of agents from their start to goal locations in an environment cluttered with obstacles. Typical approaches for MAPF consider the locations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 David Vainshtein , Kiril Solovey , Oren Salzman

Modular vehicles present a novel area of academic and industrial interest in the field of multi-agent systems. Modularity allows vehicles to connect and disconnect with each other mid-transit which provides a balance between efficiency and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Adam Casselman , Manav Vora , Melkior Ornik

Complex scheduling problems require a large amount computation power and innovative solution methods. The objective of this paper is the conception and implementation of a multi-agent system that is applicable in various problem domains.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Peter Hillmann , Tobias Uhlig , Gabi Dreo Rodosek , Oliver Rose

Autonomous Driving is now the promising future of transportation. As one basis for autonomous driving, High Definition Map (HD map) provides high-precision descriptions of the environment, therefore it enables more accurate perception and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Jinliang Xie , Jie Tang , Shaoshan Liu

Recent developments in modular transport vehicles allow deploying multi-purpose vehicles which can alternately transport different kinds of flows. In this study, we propose a novel variant of the pickup and delivery problem, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Jonas Hatzenbühler , Erik Jenelius , Győző Gidófalvi , Oded Cats

In this paper, we focus on the autonomous multiagent taxi routing problem for a large urban environment where the location and number of future ride requests are unknown a-priori, but can be estimated by an empirical distribution. Recent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Daniel Garces , Sushmita Bhattacharya , Dimitri Bertsekas , Stephanie Gil

We consider the online buffer minimization in multiprocessor systems with conflicts problem (in short, the buffer minimization problem) in the recently introduced flow model. In an online fashion, workloads arrive on some of the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niklas Haas , Sören Schmitt , Rob van Stee

Traffic assignment is a core component of many urban transport planning tools. It is used to determine how traffic is distributed over a transportation network. We study the task of computing traffic assignments for public transport: Given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Julian Patzner , Matthias Müller-Hannemann

Efficient coordination and planning is essential for large-scale multi-agent systems that collaborate in a shared dynamic environment. Heuristic search methods or learning-based approaches often lack the guarantee on correctness and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Zesen Liu , Meng Guo , Weimin Bao , Zhongkui Li

In cooperative Multi-Agent Planning (MAP), a set of goals has to be achieved by a set of agents. Independently of whether they perform a pre-assignment of goals to agents or they directly search for a solution without any goal assignment,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Alberto Pozanco , Daniel Borrajo

Analyzing big data in a highly dynamic environment becomes more and more critical because of the increasingly need for end-to-end processing of this data. Modern data flows are quite complex and there are not efficient, cost-based,…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Georgia Kougka , Anastasios Gounaris

The traffic assignment problem (TAP) aims to predict how traffic flows distribute themselves across a road network, traditionally requiring computationally expensive iterative simulations to reach a user equilibrium (UE) where no driver can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Isolda Cardoso , Lucas Venturato , Jorgelina Walpen

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) requires collision-free trajectories for multiple agents on a shared graph, often with the objective of minimizing the sum-of-costs (SOC). Many optimal and bounded-suboptimal solvers rely on time-expanded…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fernando Salanova , Eduardo Montijano , Cristian Mahulea

In large-scale systems there are fundamental challenges when centralised techniques are used for task allocation. The number of interactions is limited by resource constraints such as on computation, storage, and network communication. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Niall Creech , Natalia Criado Pacheco , Simon Miles

We study the problem of finding statistically distinct plans for stochastic planning and task assignment problems such as online multi-robot pickup and delivery (MRPD) when facing multiple competing objectives. In many real-world settings…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Nils Wilde , Javier Alonso-Mora