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Autonomous vehicles must reason about spatial occlusions in urban environments to ensure safety without being overly cautious. Prior work explored occlusion inference from observed social behaviors of road agents, hence treating people as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Masha Itkina , Ye-Ji Mun , Katherine Driggs-Campbell , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Coordinating multiple agents to collaboratively maximize submodular functions in unpredictable environments is a critical task with numerous applications in machine learning, robot planning and control. The existing approaches, such as the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Qixin Zhang , Zongqi Wan , Yu Yang , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

As Mobility as a Service (MaaS) systems become increasingly popular, travel is changing from unimodal trips to personalized services offered by a platform of mobility operators. Evaluation of MaaS platforms depends on modeling both user…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Theodoros P. Pantelidis , Joseph Y. J. Chow , Saeid Rasulkhani

We present a model of synchronization in networks of autonomous agents where the topology changes due to agents motion. We introduce two time scales, one for the topological change and another one for local synchronization. If the former…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-05-29 Naoya Fujiwara , Jürgen Kurths , Albert Díaz-Guilera

In this article, we present a finite time stopping criterion for consensus algorithms in networks with dynamic communication topology. Recent results provide asymptotic convergence to the consensus algorithm. However, the asymptotic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Govind Saraswat , Vivek Khatana , Sourav Patel , Murti V. Salapaka

We present a novel agent-based approach to simulating an over-the-counter (OTC) financial market in which trades are intermediated solely by market makers and agent visibility is constrained to a network topology. Dynamics, such as changes…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-05-07 James T. Wilkinson , Jacob Kelter , John Chen , Uri Wilensky

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed reachable set computation for multi-agent systems (MASs) interacting over an undirected, stationary graph. A full state-feedback control input for such MASs depends no only on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Omanshu Thapliyal , Shanelle Clarke , Inseok Hwang

In control system networks, reconfiguration of the controller when agents are leaving or joining the network is still an open challenge, in particular when operation constraints that depend on each agent's behavior must be met. Drawing our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Danilo Saccani , Lorenzo Fagiano , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Andrea Carron

Large language model (LLM) agents have shown increasing promise for collaborative task completion. However, existing multi-agent frameworks often rely on static workflows, fixed roles, and limited inter-agent communication, reducing their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chengxuan Xia , Qianye Wu , Sixuan Tian , Yilun Hao

We study continuous-time consensus dynamics for multi-agent systems with undirected switching interaction graphs. We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for exponential asymptotic consensus based on the classical theory of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Brian D. O. Anderson , Guodong Shi , Jochen Trumpf

Systems with long-range interactions often exhibit power-law distributions and can by described by the non-extensive statistical mechanics framework proposed by Tsallis. In this contribution we consider a simple model reproducing continuous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-19 Aleksejus Kononovicius , Julius Ruseckas

This brief addresses the distributed consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems under a general directed communication topology. Each agent is governed by higher-order dynamics with mismatched uncertainties, multiple completely…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gang Wang , Chaoli Wang , Zhengtao Ding , Yunfeng Ji

This paper investigates the problem of cooperative tuning of multi-agent optimal control systems, where a network of agents (i.e. multiple coupled optimal control systems) adjusts parameters in their dynamics, objective functions, or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Zehui Lu , Wanxin Jin , Shaoshuai Mou , Brian D. O. Anderson

By activating blocked users and altering successive interference cancellation (SIC) sequences, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) become promising for enhancing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. The downlink RIS-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Chao Zhang , Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu

Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) inference can suffer from dense inter-agent communication and low hardware utilization, which jointly inflate serving latency. We present a serving design that targets these bottlenecks through an algorithm-system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zijun Wang , Yijiahao Qi , Hanqiu Chen , Zishen Wan , Gongjin Sun , Dongyang Li , Shuyi Pei , Cong Hao

We study cluster assignment in homogeneous diffusive multi-agent networks. Given the number of clusters and agents within each cluster, we design the network graph ensuring the system will converge to the prescribed cluster configuration.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Miel Sharf , Daniel Zelazo

This article deals with the consensus problem involving agents with time-varying singularities in the dynamics or communication in undirected graph networks. Existing results provide control laws which guarantee asymptotic consensus. These…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Nilanjan Roy Chowdhury , Srikant Sukumar

The gathering problem requires a set of mobile agents, arbitrarily positioned at different nodes of a network to group within finite time at the same location, not fixed in advanced. The extensive existing literature on this problem shares…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Linda Pagli , Giuseppe Prencipe , Nicola Santoro , Giovanni Viglietta

Uncertainty-aware prediction is essential for safe motion planning, especially when using learned models to forecast the behavior of surrounding agents. Conformal prediction is a statistical tool often used to produce uncertainty-aware…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Allen Emmanuel Binny , Anushri Dixit

Multi-round LLM-based multi-agent systems rely on effective communication structures to support collaboration across rounds. However, most existing methods employ a fixed communication topology during inference, which falls short in many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wenzhe Fan , Tommaso Tognoli , Henry Peng Zou , Chunyu Miao , Yibo Wang , Xinhua Zhang