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AI agents -- systems that combine foundation models with reasoning, planning, memory, and tool use -- are rapidly becoming a practical interface between natural-language intent and real-world computation. This survey synthesizes the…

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Self-organization is a process where a stable pattern is formed by the cooperative behavior between parts of an initially disordered system without external control or influence. It has been introduced to multi-agent systems as an internal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Jieting Luo , Beishui Liao , John-Jules Meyer

Agentic AI has significantly extended the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by enabling complex reasoning and tool use. However, most existing frameworks are tailored to domains such as mathematics, coding, or web automation, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Md Hasebul Hasan , Mahir Labib Dihan , Tanzima Hashem , Mohammed Eunus Ali , Md Rizwan Parvez

Deployed, autonomous AI systems must often evaluate multiple plausible courses of action (extended sequences of behavior) in novel or under-specified contexts. Despite extensive training, these systems will inevitably encounter scenarios…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Steven J. Jones , Robert E. Wray , John E. Laird

Intelligent agents such as robots are increasingly deployed in real-world, safety-critical settings. It is vital that these agents are able to explain the reasoning behind their decisions to human counterparts, however, their behavior is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Xijia Zhang , Yue Guo , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Joseph Campbell

While large language models (LLMs) excel at open-ended dialogue, effective psychotherapy requires structured progression and adherence to clinical protocols, making the design of psychotherapist chatbots challenging. We investigate how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sina Elahimanesh , Mohammadali Mohammadkhani , Sara Zahedi Movahed , Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi , Shayan Salehi , Abbas Edalat

The problem of achieving common understanding between agents that use different vocabularies has been mainly addressed by designing techniques that explicitly negotiate mappings between their vocabularies, requiring agents to share a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Paula Chocron , Marco Schorlemmer

Interacting with human agents in complex scenarios presents a significant challenge for robotic navigation, particularly in environments that necessitate both collision avoidance and collaborative interaction, such as indoor spaces. Unlike…

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Concurrent programming often entails meticulous pairing of sends and receives between participants to avoid deadlock. Choreographic programming alleviates this burden by specifying the system as a single program. However, there are more…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Alexander Bohosian , Andrew K. Hirsch

The question of how an effective and efficient communication system can emerge in a population of agents that need to solve a particular task attracts more and more attention from researchers in many fields, including artificial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jens Nevens , Paul Van Eecke , Katrien Beuls

This paper introduces language-based agent control (LBAC), a new programming model for agentic applications that brings techniques from programming languages and language-based security to the problem of agent control. In conventional…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Timothy Zhou , Loris D'Antoni , Nadia Polikarpova

Agents are small programs that autonomously take actions based on changes in their environment or ``state.'' Over the last few years, there have been an increasing number of efforts to build agents that can interact and/or collaborate with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Juergen Dix , Mirco Nanni , VS Subrahmanian

Personalized programming tutoring, such as exercise recommendation, can enhance learners' efficiency, motivation, and outcomes, which is increasingly important in modern digital education. However, the lack of sufficient and high-quality…

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As a contribution to the challenge of building game-playing AI systems, we develop and analyse a formal language for representing and reasoning about strategies. Our logical language builds on the existing general Game Description Language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Dongmo Zhang , Michael Thielsher

When solving decision-making tasks, humans typically depend on information from two key sources: (1) Historical policy data, which provides interaction replay from the environment, and (2) Analytical insights in natural language form,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xidong Feng , Yicheng Luo , Ziyan Wang , Hongrui Tang , Mengyue Yang , Kun Shao , David Mguni , Yali Du , Jun Wang

AI agents -- systems that plan, reason, and act using large language models -- produce non-deterministic, path-dependent behavior that cannot be fully governed at design time, where with governed we mean striking the right balance between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Maurits Kaptein , Vassilis-Javed Khan , Andriy Podstavnychy

In the paradigm of choreographic programming, the overall behaviour of a distributed system is coded as a choreography from a global viewpoint. The choreography can then be automatically projected (compiled) to a correct implementation for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Lovro Lugović , Fabrizio Montesi

Developing systems that can synthesize natural and life-like motions for simulated characters has long been a focus for computer animation. But in order for these systems to be useful for downstream applications, they need not only produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jordan Juravsky , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Xue Bin Peng

Choreographic programming is a promising new paradigm for programming concurrent systems where a developer writes a single centralized program that compiles to individual programs for each node. Existing choreographic languages, however,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ashley Samuelson , Andrew K. Hirsch , Ethan Cecchetti

Chat-based natural language interfaces have emerged as the dominant paradigm for human-agent interaction, yet they fundamentally constrain engagement with structured information and complex tasks. We identify three inherent limitations: the…

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