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We propose a formalism to model and reason about reconfigurable multi-agent systems. In our formalism, agents interact and communicate in different modes so that they can pursue joint tasks; agents may dynamically synchronize, exchange…

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Code generation models based on large language models (LLMs) have gained wide adoption, but challenges remain in ensuring safety, accuracy, and controllability, especially for complex tasks. Existing methods often lack dynamic integration…

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We present a mathematical programming-based method for model predictive control of cyber-physical systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. We describe the use of STL to specify a wide range of properties of these…

This paper introduces the safety controller architecture as a runtime assurance mechanism for system specifications expressed as safety properties in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). The safety controller has three fundamental components: a…

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Large language model (LLM) agents are vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks that propagate through multi-step workflows, tool interactions, and persistent context, making input-output filtering alone insufficient for reliable protection.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hailin Liu , Eugene Ilyushin , Jie Ni , Min Zhu

This paper deals with the control synthesis problem for a continuous nonlinear dynamical system under a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula. The proposed solution is a top-down hierarchical decomposition of the control problem involving…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Pierre-Jean Meyer , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Reactive synthesis is a key technique for the design of correct-by-construction systems and has been thoroughly investigated in the last decades. It consists in the synthesis of a controller that reacts to environment's inputs satisfying a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alessandro Cimatti , Luca Geatti , Nicola Gigante , Angelo Montanari , Stefano Tonetta

Powerful autonomous systems, which reason, plan, and converse using and between numerous tools and agents, are made possible by Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and new agentic AI systems, like LangChain and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Toqeer Ali Syed , Mishal Ateeq Almutairi , Mahmoud Abdel Moaty

Large language models (LLMs) have empowered nodes within multi-agent networks with intelligence, showing growing applications in both academia and industry. However, how to prevent these networks from generating malicious information…

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This paper introduces SagaLLM, a structured multi-agent architecture designed to address four foundational limitations of current LLM-based planning systems: unreliable self-validation, context loss, lack of transactional safeguards, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Edward Y. Chang , Longling Geng

LLM-powered Multi-Agent Systems (LLM-MAS) unlock new potentials in distributed reasoning, collaboration, and task generalization but also introduce additional risks due to unguaranteed agreement, cascading uncertainty, and adversarial…

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In multi-agent planning, agents jointly compute a plan that achieves mutual goals, keeping certain information private to the individual agents. Agents' coordination is achieved through the transmission of messages. These messages can be a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Alfonso E. Gerevini , Nir Lipovetzky , Nico Peli , Francesco Percassi , Alessandro Saetti , Ivan Serina

We present a safe-by-design trajectory planning and tracking framework for nonlinear dynamical systems using a hierarchy of system models. The planning layer uses a low-fidelity model to plan a feasible trajectory satisfying the planning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Katherine S. Schweidel , He Yin , Stanley W. Smith , Murat Arcak

This paper introduces a multi-agent framework guided by Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist in the early stages of engineering design, a phase often characterized by vast parameter spaces and inherent uncertainty. Operating under a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Varun Kumar , George Em Karniadakis

Some multi-agent scenarios call for the possibility of evaluating specifications in a richer domain of truth values. Examples include runtime monitoring of a temporal property over a growing prefix of an infinite path, inconsistency…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Wojciech Jamroga , Beata Konikowska , Damian Kurpiewski , Wojciech Penczek

Agentic systems solve complex tasks by coordinating multiple agents that iteratively reason, invoke tools, and exchange intermediate results. To improve robustness and solution quality, recent approaches deploy multiple agent teams running…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Joseph Fioresi , Parth Parag Kulkarni , Ashmal Vayani , Song Wang , Mubarak Shah

Recent advancements in automatic code generation using large language models (LLMs) have brought us closer to fully automated secure software development. However, existing approaches often rely on a single agent for code generation, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ana Nunez , Nafis Tanveer Islam , Sumit Kumar Jha , Peyman Najafirad

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems where agents communicate in natural language to solve tasks jointly. A key capability in such systems is consensus formation, where agents iteratively exchange…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xiaolin Sun , Zixuan Liu , Yibin Hu , Zizhan Zheng

Latent-based multi-agent systems replace parts of explicit inter-agent communication with hidden representations, offering a new direction for efficient and flexible agent collaboration. However, moving coordination into latent space may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chenxi Wang , Ruiyang Huang , Jiayan Sun , Lei Wei , Yifan Wu

Intelligent Cyber-physical systems can be modelled as multi-agent systems with planning capability to impart adaptivity for changing contexts. In such multi-agent systems, the protocol for plan execution must result in the proper completion…

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