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Stochastic hybrid systems have received significant attentions as a relevant modelling framework describing many systems, from engineering to the life sciences: they enable the study of numerous applications, including transportation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Abolfazl Lavaei , Sadegh Soudjani , Alessandro Abate , Majid Zamani

Multi-robot task allocation is a ubiquitous problem in robotics due to its applicability in a variety of scenarios. Adaptive task-allocation algorithms account for unknown disturbances and unpredicted phenomena in the environment where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Yousef Emam , Gennaro Notomista , Paul Glotfelter , Magnus Egerstedt

Multi-Agent reinforcement learning has received lot of attention in recent years and have applications in many different areas. Existing methods involving Centralized Training and Decentralized execution, attempts to train the agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Satheesh K. Perepu , Kaushik Dey

Since the introduction of Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL), many logics have been proposed to reason about different strategic capabilities of the agents of a system. In particular, some logics have been designed to reason about the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Simon Busard , Charles Pecheur

For a binary choice problem, the spatial coordination of decisions in an agent community is investigated both analytically and by means of stochastic computer simulations. The individual decisions are based on different local information…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Frank Schweitzer , Joerg Zimmermann , Heinz Muehlenbein

We study a robust contract design problem with deferred inspection, in which a principal allocates a scarce resource to an agent, observes the agent's realized outcome ex post at negligible cost, and conditions transfers on this information…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-12 Halil I. Bayrak , Martin Bichler

We present a variant of ATL with distributed knowledge operators based on a synchronous and perfect recall semantics. The coalition modalities in this logic are based on partial observation of the full history, and incorporate a form of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Cătălin Dima , Constantin Enea , Dimitar Guelev

A key challenge in multi-agent systems is the design of intelligent agents solving real-world tasks in close interaction with other agents (e.g. humans), thereby being confronted with a variety of behavioral variations and limited knowledge…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Julian Bernhard , Alois Knoll

We examine the robustness of bottleneck assignment problems to perturbations in the assignment weights. We derive two algorithms that provide uncertainty bounds for robust assignment. We prove that the bottleneck assignment is guaranteed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Elad Michael , Tony A. Wood , Chris Manzie , Iman Shames

In many multiagent settings, such as electric vehicle charging and traffic routing, agents must make decisions in the face of uncertain behavior exhibited by others. Often, this uncertainty arises from multiple sources, such as incomplete…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Andreas Feik , Nicolas Lanzetti , Saverio Bolognani , Florian Dörfler , Dario Paccagnan

We study the design of information acquisition games-environments where a designer contracts their action on Sender's choice of experiment and the realized signals about some state-and identify which predictions can be made absent knowledge…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-22 Eric Gao , Daniel Luo

Many modern autonomous systems, particularly multi-agent systems, are time-critical and need to be robust against timing uncertainties. Previous works have studied left and right time robustness of signal temporal logic specifications by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Alëna Rodionova , Lars Lindemann , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

Traditional approaches to the design of multi-agent navigation algorithms consider the environment as a fixed constraint, despite the influence of spatial constraints on agents' performance. Yet hand-designing conducive environment layouts…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-22 Zhan Gao , Amanda Prorok

We study a large-scale patrol problem with state-dependent costs and multi-agent coordination.We consider heterogeneous agents, rather general reward functions, and the capabilities of tracking agents' trajectories.Given the complexity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Jing Fu , Zengfu Wang , Jie Chen

We develop a framework for studying and quantifying the risk of cascading failures in time-delay consensus networks, motivated by a team of agents attempting temporal rendezvous under stochastic disturbances and communication delays. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Guangyi Liu , Vivek Pandey , Christoforos Somarakis , Nader Motee

We develop an assume-guarantee contract framework for the design of cyber-physical systems, modeled as closed-loop control systems, under probabilistic requirements. We use a variant of signal temporal logic, namely, Stochastic Signal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Jiwei Li , Pierluigi Nuzzo , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Yugeng Xi , Dewei Li

Online multi-agent control problems, where many agents pursue competing and time-varying objectives, are widespread in domains such as autonomous robotics, economics, and energy systems. In these settings, robustness to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Anas Barakat , John Lazarsfeld , Georgios Piliouras , Antonios Varvitsiotis

As AI agents evolve, the community is rapidly shifting from single Large Language Models (LLMs) to Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) to overcome cognitive bottlenecks in automated research. However, the optimal multi-agent coordination framework…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yang Shen , Zhenyi Yi , Ziyi Zhao , Lijun Sun , Dongyang Li , Chin-Teng Lin , Yuhui Shi

Critical infrastructures face demanding challenges due to natural and human-generated threats, such as pandemics, workforce shortages or cyber-attacks, which might severely compromise service quality. To improve system resilience,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-11 David Carramiñana , Ana M. Bernardos , Juan A. Besada , José R. Casar

This work studies the threats of adversarial attack on multivariate probabilistic forecasting models and viable defense mechanisms. Our studies discover a new attack pattern that negatively impact the forecasting of a target time series via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Linbo Liu , Youngsuk Park , Trong Nghia Hoang , Hilaf Hasson , Jun Huan