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Efficient motion planning for high-dimensional robotic systems, such as manipulators and mobile manipulators, is critical for real-time operation and reliable deployment. Although advances in planning algorithms have enhanced scalability to…

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Effective mixed traffic control requires balancing efficiency, fairness, and safety. Existing approaches excel at optimizing efficiency and enforcing safety constraints but lack mechanisms to ensure equitable service, resulting in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Iftekharul Islam , Weizi Li

Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are being used extensively in civilian and military applications for applications such as underground mining, nuclear plant operations, planetary exploration, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Venkata Sirimuvva Chirala , Kaarthik Sundar , Saravanan Venkatachalam , Jonathon M. Smereka , Sam Kassoumeh

Due to their adaptability and mobility, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly essential for wireless network services, particularly for data harvesting tasks. In this context, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Babacar Toure , Dimitrios Tsilimantos , Omid Esrafilian , Marios Kountouris

The significance of transportation efficiency, safety, and related services is increasing in urban vehicular networks. Within such networks, roadside units (RSUs) serve as intermediates in facilitating communication. Therefore, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Weian Guo , Zecheng Kang , Dongyang Li , Lun Zhang , Li Li

The emergence of the fifth generation (5G) technology has transformed mobile networks into multi-service environments, necessitating efficient network slicing to meet diverse Service Level Agreements (SLAs). SLA decomposition across…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Cyril Shih-Huan Hsu , Chrysa Papagianni , Paola Grosso

Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) is a prominent metaheuristic and a widely adopted approach for production and logistics optimization. However, it has long relied on hand-crafted components built on expert experience, which makes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Shaohua Yu , Tianyu Chen , Linyan Liu , Jakob Puchinger

In this work, we propose a deep learning approach for parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction, termed a variable splitting network (VS-Net), for an efficient, high-quality reconstruction of undersampled multi-coil MR data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Jinming Duan , Jo Schlemper , Chen Qin , Cheng Ouyang , Wenjia Bai , Carlo Biffi , Ghalib Bello , Ben Statton , Declan P O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert

In this paper a variable neighborhood search approach as a method for solving combinatoric optimization problems is presented. A variable neighborhood search based algorithm for solving the problem concerning the university course timetable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Velin Kralev , Radoslava Kraleva

Modern data often arises with multiple modalities. For example, covariates and a network are observed on the same subjects, and both contain useful information. Effectively integrating these modalities is important and challenging,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-25 Tao Shen , Wanjie Wang

The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources poses numerous reliability issues to the urban distribution grid. The topology estimation is a critical step to ensure the robustness of distribution grid operation. However, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-14 Yizheng Liao , Yang Weng , Guangyi Liu , Ram Rajagopal

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) has gained significant attention, with most research focusing on minimizing collisions and travel time. This paper also considers energy consumption in the path planning of automated guided vehicles (AGVs).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ahmad Kokhahi , Mary Kurz

Anytime multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is a promising approach to scalable path optimization in multi-agent systems. MAPF-LNS, based on Large Neighborhood Search (LNS), is the current state-of-the-art approach where a fast initial solution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Thomy Phan , Benran Zhang , Shao-Hung Chan , Sven Koenig

Deep Learning models have experienced exponential growth in complexity and resource demands in recent years. Accelerating these models for efficient execution on resource-constrained devices has become more crucial than ever. Two notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Inas Bachiri , Hadjer Benmeziane , Smail Niar , Riyadh Baghdadi , Hamza Ouarnoughi , Abdelkrime Aries

Autonomous navigation often requires the simultaneous optimization of multiple objectives. The most common approach scalarizes these into a single cost function using a weighted sum, but this method is unable to find all possible trade-offs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Krishna Kalavadia , Shamak Dutta , Yash Vardhan Pant , Stephen L. Smith

Location information will play a very important role in emerging wireless networks such as Intelligent Transportation Systems, 5G, and the Internet of Things. However, wrong location information can result in poor network outcomes. It is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Ullah Ihsan , Robert Malaney , Shihao Yan

Managing mixed traffic comprising human-driven and robot vehicles (RVs) across large-scale networks presents unique challenges beyond single-intersection control. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning framework for coordinating mixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Iftekharul Islam , Weizi Li

With the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), navigating for EV drivers to select a cost-effective charging station has become an important yet challenging issue due to dynamic traffic conditions, fluctuating electricity prices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Tianyang Qi , Shibo Chen , Jun Zhang

High dimensional black-box optimization has broad applications but remains a challenging problem to solve. Given a set of samples $\{\vx_i, y_i\}$, building a global model (like Bayesian Optimization (BO)) suffers from the curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Linnan Wang , Rodrigo Fonseca , Yuandong Tian

Applying machine learning to sensitive time-series data is often bottlenecked by the iteration loop: Performance depends strongly on preprocessing and architecture, yet training often has to run on-premise under strict data-local…