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The multi-path Traveling Salesman Problem with stochastic travel costs arises in hybrid vehicle routing applications designed for Smart City and City Logistics, where multiple paths exist between each pair of locations. Travel times along…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Xiaochen Chou , Ludovica Di Marco , Enza Messina

In this work we study a well-known and challenging problem of Multi-agent Pathfinding, when a set of agents is confined to a graph, each agent is assigned a unique start and goal vertices and the task is to find a set of collision-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Yelisey Pitanov , Alexey Skrynnik , Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov

Consider a multi-agent system in a dynamic and uncertain environment. Each agent's local decision problem is modeled as a Markov decision process (MDP) and agents must coordinate on a joint action in each period, which provides a reward to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Ruggiero Cavallo , David C. Parkes , Satinder Singh

When traveling through a graph with an accessible deterministic path to a target, is it ever preferable to resort to stochastic node-to-node transitions instead? And if so, what are the conditions guaranteeing that such a stochastic optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Mallory E. Gaspard , Alexander Vladimirsky

Many real-world multi-agent systems exhibit nonlinear dynamics and complex inter-agent interactions. As these systems increase in scale, the main challenges arise from achieving scalability and handling nonconvexity. To address these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Taehyun Yoon , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Utilizing graph algorithms is a common activity in computer science. Algorithms that perform computations on large graphs are not always efficient. This work investigates the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem, which is considered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Ahmed Shokry

Coordinating agents through hazardous environments, such as aid-delivering drones navigating conflict zones or field robots traversing deployment areas filled with obstacles, poses fundamental planning challenges. We introduce and analyze…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Šimon Schierreich , Nicholas Axel Tanujaya , Haifeng Xu

The problem of mixed static and dynamic obstacle avoidance is essential for path planning in highly dynamic environment. However, the paths formed by grid edges can be longer than the true shortest paths in the terrain since their headings…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Junxiao Xue , Xiangyan Kong , Bowei Dong , Mingliang Xu

The paper addresses two variants of the stochastic shortest path problem ('optimize the accumulated weight until reaching a goal state') in Markov decision processes (MDPs) with integer weights. The first variant optimizes partial expected…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Jakob Piribauer , Christel Baier

This paper introduces a new approach to solving a continuous-time version of the multi-agent path finding problem. The algorithm translates the problem into an extension of the classical Boolean satisfiability problem, satisfiability modulo…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Tomáš Kolárik , Stefan Ratschan , Pavel Surynek

The Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (MTSP) extends the traveling salesman problem by assigning multiple salesmen to visit a set of targets from a common depot, with each target visited exactly once while minimizing total tour length. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Abhay Singh Bhadoriya , Deepjyoti Deka , Kaarthik Sundar

Multi-agent path planning is a challenging problem with numerous real-life applications. Running a centralized search such as A* in the combined state space of all units is complete and cost-optimal, but scales poorly, as the state space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Ko-Hsin Cindy Wang , Adi Botea

We study a problem where k autonomous mobile agents are initially located on distinct nodes of a weighted graph (with n nodes and m edges). Each autonomous mobile agent has a predefined velocity and is only allowed to move along the edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Iago A. Carvalho , Thomas Erlebach , Kleitos Papadopoulos

Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of planning collision-free movements of agents so that they get from where they are to where they need to be. Commonly, agents are located on a graph and can traverse edges. This problem has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Alvin Combrink , Sabino Francesco Roselli , Martin Fabian

We study a variant of the multi-agent path finding problem (MAPF) in which agents are required to remain connected to each other and to a designated base. This problem has applications in search and rescue missions where the entire…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Arthur Queffelec , Ocan Sankur , François Schwarzentruber

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a team of agents to reach their goal locations. State-of-the-art classical MAPF solvers typically employ heuristic search to find solutions for hundreds of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Rishi Veerapaneni , Qian Wang , Kevin Ren , Arthur Jakobsson , Jiaoyang Li , Maxim Likhachev

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is a challenging problem which is hard to solve optimally even when simplifying assumptions are adopted, e.g. planar graphs (typically -- grids), discretized time, uniform duration of move and wait actions…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Stepan Dergachev , Konstantin Yakovlev

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims to find collision-free paths for multiple agents while optimizing objectives such as the sum of costs or makespan. MAPF has wide applications in domains like automated warehouses,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jingtian Yan , Shuai Zhou , Stephen F. Smith , Jiaoyang Li

Among sub-optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) solvers, rule-based algorithms are particularly appealing since they are complete. Even in crowded scenarios, they allow finding a feasible solution that brings each agent to its target,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Irene Saccani , Stefano Ardizzoni , Luca Consolini , Marco Locatelli

Traditional navigation services find the fastest route for a single driver. Though always using the fastest route seems desirable for every individual, selfish behavior can have undesirable effects such as higher energy consumption and…