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We propose a model of multiagent systems whose agents have a tendency to balance their decisions in time. We find phase transitions to oscillatory behavior, explainable by the aggregation of agents into two groups. On a longer time scale,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 C. H. Yeung , K. Y. Michael Wong

We develop a sequence of models describing information transmission and decision dynamics for a network of individual agents subject to multiple sources of influence. Our general framework is set in the context of an impending natural…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-05 Danielle S. Bassett , David L. Alderson , Jean M. Carlson

In this paper, we consider a mean field game model inspired by crowd motion in which several interacting populations evolving in $\mathbb R^d$ aim at reaching given target sets in minimal time. The movement of each agent is described by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Saeed Sadeghi Arjmand , Guilherme Mazanti

The problem of multi-agent learning and adaptation has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. It has been suggested that the dynamics of multi agent learning can be studied using replicator equations from population biology.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-26 Aram Galstyan

Empirically derived continuum models of collective behavior among large populations of dynamic agents are a subject of intense study in several fields, including biology, engineering and finance. We formulate and study a mean-field game…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-06-22 Piyush Grover , Kaivalya Bakshi , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Previous research using evolutionary computation in Multi-Agent Systems indicates that assigning fitness based on team vs.\ individual behavior has a strong impact on the ability of evolved teams of artificial agents to exhibit teamwork in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Alex C. Rollins , Jacob Schrum

Populations of mobile and communicating agents describe a vast array of technological and natural systems, ranging from sensor networks to animal groups. Here, we investigate how a group-level agreement may emerge in the continuously…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-01-25 Andrea Baronchelli , Albert Diaz-Guilera

Universality in the behavior of complex systems often reveals itself in the form of scale-invariant distributions that are essentially independent of the details of the microscopic dynamics. A representative paradigm of complex behavior in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Malescio , N. V. Dokholyan , S. V. Buldyrev , H. Eugene Stanley

Particle- and agent-based systems are a ubiquitous modeling tool in many disciplines. We consider the fundamental problem of inferring interaction kernels from observations of agent-based dynamical systems given observations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mauro Maggioni , Jason Miller , Ming Zhong

This paper studies the correlations of the average winnings of agents and the volatilities of systems based on mix-game model which is an extension of minority game (MG). In mix-game, there are two groups of agents; group1 plays the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Chengling Gou

An abstract architecture for idealized multi-agent systems whose behaviour is regulated by normative systems is developed and discussed. Agent choices are determined partially by the preference ordering of possible states and partially by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jan Odelstad , Magnus Boman

This paper presents some basic elements regarding the domain of the collaborative systems, a domain of maximum actuality and also the multiagent systems, developed as a result of a sound study on the one-agent systems.

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-04-24 Alin Munteanu , Cristina Ofelia Sofran

Feedback-evolving games is a framework that models the co-evolution between payoff functions and an environmental state. It serves as a useful tool to analyze many social dilemmas such as natural resource consumption, behaviors in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Keith Paarporn , James Nelson

A pressing challenge for coming decades is sustainable and just management of large-scale common-pool resources including the atmosphere, biodiversity and public services. This poses a difficult collective action problem because such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-15 David Andersson , Sigrid Bratsberg , Andrew K. Ringsmuth , Astrid S. de Wijn

This paper deals with the kinetic theory modeling of crowd dynamics with the aim of showing how the dynamics at the micro-scale is transferred to the dynamics of collective behaviors. The derivation of a new model is followed by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-24 Nicola Bellomo , Abdelghani Bellouquid , Damian Knopoff

In this paper, we tackle the problem of innovation spreading from a modeling point of view. We consider a networked system of individuals, with a competition between two groups. We show its relation to the innovation spreading issues. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-07-07 Krzysztof Suchecki , Andrea Scharnhorst , Janusz A. Holyst

Evolutionary game theory has been successfully used to investigate the dynamics of systems, in which many entities have competitive interactions. From a physics point of view, it is interesting to study conditions under which a coordination…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 Dirk Helbing , Anders Johansson

Biological and social systems are structured at multiple scales, and the incentives of individuals who interact in a group may diverge from the collective incentive of the group as a whole. Mechanisms to resolve this tension are responsible…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-31 Daniel B. Cooney , Simon A. Levin , Yoichiro Mori , Joshua B. Plotkin

We consider a control problem involving several agents coupled through multiple unit-demand resources. Such resources are indivisible, and each agent's consumption is modeled as a Bernoulli random variable. Controlling the number of such…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Syed Eqbal Alam , Robert Shorten , Fabian Wirth , Jia Yuan Yu

Multi-agent models have been used in many contexts to study generic collective behavior. Similarly, complex networks have become very popular because of the diversity of growth rules giving rise to scale-free behavior. Here we study…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2009-11-13 Z. Burda , A. Krzywicki , O. C. Martin