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Coordinating multiple autonomous agents to reach a target region while avoiding collisions and maintaining communication connectivity is a core problem in multi-agent systems. In practice, agents have a limited communication range. Thus,…

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For responsible decision making in safety-critical settings, machine learning models must effectively detect and process edge-case data. Although existing works show that predictive uncertainty is useful for these tasks, it is not evident…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Mark Penrod , Harrison Termotto , Varshini Reddy , Jiayu Yao , Finale Doshi-Velez , Weiwei Pan

This study addresses the problem of anomaly detection and root cause tracing in microservice architectures and proposes a unified framework that combines graph neural networks with temporal modeling. The microservice call chain is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Qingyuan Zhang , Ning Lyu , Le Liu , Yuxi Wang , Ziyu Cheng , Cancan Hua

This paper presents a complex systems overview of a power grid network. In recent years, concerns about the robustness of the power grid have grown because of several cascading outages in different parts of the world. In this paper,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-06-24 Sakshi Pahwa , Amelia Hodges , Caterina Scoglio , Sean Wood

We present ACAR (Adaptive Complexity and Attribution Routing), a measurement framework for studying multi-model orchestration under auditable conditions. ACAR uses self-consistency variance (sigma) computed from N=3 probe samples to route…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ramchand Kumaresan

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

Transmission line failures in power systems propagate and cascade non-locally. This well-known yet counter-intuitive feature makes it even more challenging to optimally and reliably operate these complex networks. In this work we present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Alessandro Zocca , Chen Liang , Linqi Guo , Steven H. Low , Adam Wierman

A significant amount of society's infrastructure can be modeled using graph structures, from electric and communication grids, to traffic networks, to social networks. Each of these domains are also susceptible to the cascading spread of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-24 James D. Cunningham , Conrad S. Tucker

We report our initial investigations into reliability and path-finding based models and propose future areas of interest. Inspired by broken sidewalks during on-campus construction projects, we develop two models for navigating this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Bryan Knowles , Mustafa Atici

In this work and the supporting Parts II [2] and III [3], we provide a rather detailed analysis of the stability and performance of asynchronous strategies for solving distributed optimization and adaptation problems over networks. We…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Xiaochuan Zhao , Ali H. Sayed

In this article, we propose a novel navigation framework that leverages a two layered graph representation of the environment for efficient large-scale exploration, while it integrates a novel uncertainty awareness scheme to handle dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Akash Patel , Mario A V Saucedo , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

An accurate road surface friction prediction algorithm can enable intelligent transportation systems to share timely road surface condition to the public for increasing the safety of the road users. Previously, scholars developed multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Ziyuan Pu , Zhiyong Cui , Shuo Wang , Qianmu Li , Yinhai Wang

With an increasing number of vehicles equipped with adaptive cruise control (ACC), the impact of such vehicles on the collective dynamics of traffic flow becomes relevant. By means of simulation, we investigate the influence of variable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-08 Arne Kesting , Martin Treiber , Dirk Helbing

Recent advances in spatial and temporal networks have enabled researchers to more-accurately describe many real-world systems such as urban transport networks. In this paper, we study the response of real-world spatio-temporal networks to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-05 Matthew J. Williams , Mirco Musolesi

In numerous artificial intelligence applications, the collaborative efforts of multiple intelligent agents are imperative for the successful attainment of target objectives. To enhance coordination among these agents, a distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shengchao Hu , Li Shen , Ya Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has become an increasingly important task across various domains. With the rapid development of graph neural networks (GNNs), GAD methods have achieved significant performance improvements. However, fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Shouju Wang , Yuchen Song , Sheng'en Li , Dongmian Zou

Measuring similarity in urban spatial networks is key to understanding cities as complex systems. Yet most existing methods are not tailored for spatial networks and struggle to differentiate them effectively. We propose GCA-Sim, a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Peiru Wu , Maojun Zhai , Lingzhu Zhang

We consider the problem of structure learning for bow-free acyclic path diagrams (BAPs). BAPs can be viewed as a generalization of linear Gaussian DAG models that allow for certain hidden variables. We present a first method for this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-05 Christopher Nowzohour , Marloes H. Maathuis , Robin J. Evans , Peter Bühlmann

Stochastic dynamical systems with slow or metastable behavior evolve, on long time scales, on an unknown low-dimensional manifold in high-dimensional ambient space. Building a reduced simulator from short-burst ambient ensembles is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sean Hill , Felix X. -F. Ye

In network systems, a local perturbation can amplify as it propagates, potentially leading to a large-scale cascading failure. Here we derive a continuous model to advance our understanding of cascading failures in power-grid networks. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-18 Yang Yang , Adilson E. Motter