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Large language models (LLMs) have enabled multi-agent systems (MAS) in which multiple agents argue, critique, and coordinate to solve complex tasks, making communication topology a first-class design choice. Yet most existing LLM-based MAS…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Boxuan Wang , Zhuoyun Li , Xiaowei Huang , Yi Dong

Multi-agent language systems are often built as hand-designed workflows, where agents are assigned semantic roles and communication protocols are specified in advance. We propose NeuroMAS, a method that first treats a multi-agent language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haoran Lu , Luyang Fang , Wenxuan Zhong , Ping Ma

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has shown clear effectiveness in coordinating multiple agents across simulated benchmarks and constrained scenarios. However, its deployment in real-world multi-agent systems (MAS) remains limited,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Siyi Hu , Mohamad A Hady , Jianglin Qiao , Jimmy Cao , Mahardhika Pratama , Ryszard Kowalczyk

This paper aims at investigating a novel type of cyber attack that is injected to multi-agent systems (MAS) having an underlying directed graph. The cyber attack, which is designated as the controllability attack, is injected by the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Mahdi Taheri , Khashayar Khorasani , Iman Shames , Nader Meskin

This paper is concerned with evaluating different multiagent learning (MAL) algorithms in problems where individual agents may be heterogenous, in the sense of utilizing different learning strategies, without the opportunity for prior…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Stefano V. Albrecht , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

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

Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems have emerged as a powerful paradigm for enabling autonomous agents to solve complex tasks. As these systems scale in complexity, cost becomes an important consideration for practical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Liming Yang , Junyu Luo , Xuanzhe Liu , Yiling Lou , Zhenpeng Chen

This paper presents a simulation model based on the general framework of Multi-Agent System (MAS) that can be used to investigate construction project bidding process. Specifically, it can be used to investigate different strategies in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Rui Liu

Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a fundamental shift in the design of intelligent systems, characterized by interconnected components that collectively enable autonomous perception, reasoning, planning, action, and learning.…

This note investigates how to design topology structures to ensure the controllability of multi-agent networks (MASs) under any selection of leaders. We put forward a concept of perfect controllability, which means that a multi-agent system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Shaobin Cao , Zhijian Ji , Hai Lin , Haisheng Yu

During our participation in MAPC 2019, we have developed two multi-agent systems that have been designed specifically for this competition. The first of the systems is pro-active system that works with pre-specified scenarios and tasks…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Vaclav Uhlir , Frantisek Zboril , Frantisek Vidensky

Cybersecurity has become one of the earliest adopters of agentic AI, as security operations centers increasingly rely on multi-step reasoning, tool-driven analysis, and rapid decision-making under pressure. While individual large language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Vaishali Vinay

The rapid advancement of Generative AI has catalyzed the emergence of autonomous AI agents, presenting unprecedented challenges for enterprise computing infrastructures. Current enterprise API architectures are predominantly designed for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Vaibhav Tupe , Shrinath Thube

The fast development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents provides a promising way for the realization of intelligent and customized wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a Wireless Multi-Agent System (WMAS), which can provide…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jingchen Peng , Dingli Yuan , Boxiang Ren , Jie Fan , Hao Wu , Lu Yang

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a promising paradigm for solving complex tasks. Recent work has explored self-evolving MAS that automatically optimize agent capabilities or communication topologies. However, existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chen Xu , Yicheng Hu , Ruizi Wang , Xinyu Lin , Wenjie Wang , Dongrui Liu , Fuli Feng

The transition from monolithic to microservices architecture revolutionized software development by improving scalability and maintainability. This paradigm shift is now becoming relevant for complex multi-agent systems (MAS). This review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Muskaan Goyal , Pranav Bhasin

Large language model (LLM)-driven multi-agent systems (MAS) are transforming how humans and AIs collaboratively generate ideas and artifacts. While existing surveys provide comprehensive overviews of MAS infrastructures, they largely…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yi-Cheng Lin , Kang-Chieh Chen , Zhe-Yan Li , Tzu-Heng Wu , Tzu-Hsuan Wu , Kuan-Yu Chen , Hung-yi Lee , Yun-Nung Chen

Malicious agents pose significant threats to the reliability and decision-making capabilities of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing defenses often fall short due to reactive designs or centralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yang Feng , Xudong Pan

A multi-agent system (MAS) powered by large language models (LLMs) can automate tedious user tasks such as meeting scheduling that requires inter-agent collaboration. LLMs enable nuanced protocols that account for unstructured private data,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Mason Nakamura , Abhinav Kumar , Saaduddin Mahmud , Sahar Abdelnabi , Shlomo Zilberstein , Eugene Bagdasarian

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have been developed rapidly, and AI-based systems have been widely used in various application domains with opportunities and challenges. However, little is known about the architecture decisions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Beiqi Zhang , Tianyang Liu , Peng Liang , Chong Wang , Mojtaba Shahin , Jiaxin Yu