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A memory consistency model specifies the allowed behaviors of shared memory concurrent programs. At the language level, these models are known to have a non-trivial impact on the safety of program optimizations, limiting the ability to…

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Adaptive model predictive control (MPC) robustly ensures safety while reducing uncertainty during operation. In this paper, a distributed version is proposed to deal with network systems featuring multiple agents and limited communication.…

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This paper addresses the limitations of a single agent in task decomposition and collaboration during complex task execution, and proposes a multi-agent architecture for modular task decomposition and dynamic collaboration based on large…

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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…

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Robots sometimes have to work together with a mixture of partially-aligned or conflicting goals. Flocking - coordinated motion through cohesion, alignment, and separation - traditionally assumes uniform desired inter-agent distances. Many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Peter Travis Jardine , Sidney Givigi

Max Consensus-based Auction (MCA) protocols are an elegant approach to establish conflict-free distributed allocations in a wide range of network utility maximization problems. A set of agents independently bid on a set of items, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Saber Mirzaei , Flavio Esposito

This paper proposes a control algorithm for stable implementation of asynchronous parallel quadratic programming (PQP) through dual decomposition technique. In general, distributed and parallel optimization requires synchronization of data…

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In this paper, we study asynchronous consensus problems of continuous-time multi-agent systems with discontinuous information transmission. The proposed consensus control strategy is implemented only based on the state information at some…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Xiao , Long Wang

We study the problem of asymptotic consensus as it occurs in a wide range of applications in both man-made and natural systems. In particular, we study systems with directed communication graphs that may change over time. We recently…

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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a recently proposed interoperability standard that unifies how AI agents connect with external tools and data sources. By defining a set of common client-server message exchange clauses, MCP replaces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Nanzi Yang , Weiheng Bai , Kangjie Lu

Nonlinear dynamics and safety constraints typically result in a nonlinear programming problem when applying model predictive control to achieve safe output consensus. To avoid the heavy computational burden of solving a nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Chao Wang , Shuyuan Zhang , Lei Wang

Many sequential decision-making tasks require satisfaction of multiple, partially contradictory objectives. Existing approaches are monolithic, namely all objectives are fulfilled using a single policy, which is a function that selects a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Guy Avni , Kaushik Mallik , Suman Sadhukhan

Achieving consensus among noncooperative agents remains challenging in decentralized multi-agent systems, where agents often have conflicting preferences. Existing coordination methods enable agents to reach consensus without a centralized…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jaehan Im , John-Paul Clarke , Ufuk Topcu , David Fridovich-Keil

In the artificial intelligence space, as we transition from isolated large language models to autonomous agents capable of complex reasoning and tool use. While foundational architectures and local context management protocols have been…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Naveen Kumar Krishnan

This paper addresses the robust consensus problem under switching topologies. Contrary to existing methods, the proposed approach provides decentralized protocols that achieve consensus for networked multi-agent systems in a predefined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-02 R. Aldana-López , D. Gómez-Gutiérrez , M. Defoort , J. D. Sánchez-Torres , A. J. Muñoz-Vázquez

The problem of multivalued consensus is fundamental in the area of fault-tolerant distributed computing since it abstracts a very broad set of agreement problems in which processes have to uniformly decide on a specific value v in V, where…

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Large language models are redefining software engineering by implementing AI-powered techniques throughout the whole software development process, including requirement gathering, software architecture, code generation, testing, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Malik Abdul Sami , Muhammad Waseem , Zeeshan Rasheed , Mika Saari , Kari Systä , Pekka Abrahamsson

A generalized family of Adversary Robust Consensus protocols is proposed and analyzed. These are distributed algorithms for multi-agents systems seeking to agree on a common value of a shared variable, even in the presence of faulty or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 David Angeli , Sabato Manfredi

In distributed model predictive control (MPC), the control input at each sampling time is computed by solving a large-scale optimal control problem (OCP) over a finite horizon using distributed algorithms. Typically, such algorithms require…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Giuseppe Belgioioso , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Nicolas Pelzmann , John Lygeros , Florian Dörfler

In this work, we introduce ADAPD, $\textbf{A}$ $\textbf{D}$ecentr$\textbf{A}$lized $\textbf{P}$rimal-$\textbf{D}$ual algorithmic framework for solving non-convex and smooth consensus optimization problems over a network of distributed…

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