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This paper considers the problem of adaptively searching for an unknown target using multiple agents connected through a time-varying network topology. Agents are equipped with sensors capable of fast information processing, and we propose…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

The ongoing shift of AI models from centralized cloud APIs to local AI agents on edge devices is enabling \textit{Client-Side Autonomous Agents (CSAAs)} -- persistent personal agents that can plan, access local context, and invoke tools on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Taotao Wang , Lizhao You , Jingwen Tong , Chonghe Zhao , Shengli Zhang

Agentic systems, in which diverse agents cooperate to tackle challenging problems, are exploding in popularity in the AI community. However, existing agentic frameworks take a relatively narrow view of agents, apply a centralized model, and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Alok Kamatar , J. Gregory Pauloski , Yadu Babuji , Ryan Chard , Mansi Sakarvadia , Daniel Babnigg , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster

Multi-agents systems communication is a technology, which provides a way for multiple interacting intelligent agents to communicate with each other and with environment. Multiple-agent systems are used to solve problems that are difficult…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-03-01 S. Ponomarev , A. E. Voronkov

The increasing use of LLM-based agents to support decision-making and control across diverse domains motivates the need for systematic deconfliction of their proposed actions. We present a deconfliction framework for coordinating multiple…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shiva Poudel , Thiagarajan Ramachandran , Orestis Vasios , Andrew P. Reiman

In this paper, we consider a class of workspace partitioning problems that arise in the context of area coverage and spatial load balancing for spatially distributed heterogeneous multi-agent networks. It is assumed that each agent has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Efstathios Bakolas

We present and analyze a computational hybrid architecture for performing multi-agent optimization. The optimization problems under consideration have convex objective and constraint functions with mild smoothness conditions imposed on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Matthew T. Hale , Angelia Nedic , Magnus Egerstedt

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has enabled the development of multi-agent systems where multiple LLM-based agents collaborate on complex tasks. However, existing systems often rely on centralized coordination, leading…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yingxuan Yang , Huacan Chai , Shuai Shao , Yuanyi Song , Siyuan Qi , Renting Rui , Weinan Zhang

Real-time AI services increasingly operate across the device-edge-cloud continuum, where autonomous AI agents generate latency-sensitive workloads, orchestrate multi-stage processing pipelines, and compete for shared resources under policy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Lauri Lovén , Alaa Saleh , Reza Farahani , Ilir Murturi , Miguel Bordallo López , Praveen Kumar Donta , Schahram Dustdar

Recent surges in LLM-driven intelligent systems largely overlook decades of foundational multi-agent systems (MAS) research, resulting in frameworks with critical limitations such as centralization and inadequate trust and communication…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Michael J. Wooldridge , Attila Bagoly , Jonathan J. Ward , Emanuele La Malfa , Gabriel Paludo Licks

We present a practical asynchronous data fusion model for networked agents to perform distributed Bayesian learning without sharing raw data. Our algorithm uses a gossip-based approach where pairs of randomly selected agents employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Kinjal Bhar , He Bai , Jemin George , Carl Busart

The rise of multi-agent systems powered by large language models (LLMs) and specialized reasoning agents exposes fundamental limitations in today's data management architectures. Traditional databases and data fabrics were designed for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Ioana Giurgiu , Michael E. Nidd

Multi-agent systems face a fundamental architectural flaw: agent identity is bound to network location. When agents migrate between providers, scale across instances, or federate across organizations, URI-based identity schemes break…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Roland R. Rodriguez

Artificial intelligence systems for scientific discovery have demonstrated remarkable potential, yet existing approaches remain largely proprietary and operate in batch-processing modes requiring hours per research cycle, precluding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Lukas Weidener , Marko Brkić , Mihailo Jovanović , Ritvik Singh , Chiara Baccin , Emre Ulgac , Alex Dobrin , Aakaash Meduri

The emergence of large language models has catalyzed two distinct yet interconnected paradigms in artificial intelligence: standalone AI Agents and collaborative Agentic AI ecosystems. This comprehensive study establishes a definitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Prashik Buddhaghosh Bansod

By the distributed averaging problem is meant the problem of computing the average value of a set of numbers possessed by the agents in a distributed network using only communication between neighboring agents. Gossiping is a well-known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Ji Liu , Shaoshuai Mou , A. Stephen Morse , Brian D. O. Anderson , Changbin Yu

We use a data-driven agent-based model to study the core-periphery structure of two collaboration networks, R&D alliances between firms and co-authorship relations between scientists. To characterize the network embeddedness of agents, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-25 Frank Schweitzer , Antonios Garas , Mario V. Tomasello , Giacomo Vaccario , Luca Verginer

Agentic AI systems, which leverage multiple autonomous agents and large language models (LLMs), are increasingly used to address complex, multi-step tasks. The safety, security, and functionality of these systems are critical, especially in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Edoardo Allegrini , Ananth Shreekumar , Z. Berkay Celik

Honeypots are deception systems that emulate vulnerable services to collect threat intelligence. While deploying many honeypots increases the opportunity to observe attacker behaviour, in practise network and computational resources limit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Federico Mirra , Matteo Boffa , Idilio Drago , Danilo Giordano , Marco Mellia

This work presents a decentralized time synchronization algorithm for multi-agent systems. Each agent possesses two clocks, a hardware clock that is perturbed by environmental phenomena (e.g., temperature, humidity, pressure, g forces,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Federico M. Zegers , Sean Phillips