AI Applications of Multi-Agent Systems

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2025 | Viewed by 1389

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School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Interests: artificial intelligence; multi-agent systems; reinforcement learning; large-language model-driven decision making

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School of Computer Science, Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing 211815, China
Interests: multiagent systems; AI for education

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School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Interests: algorithms design and analysis; power-aware scheduling problems; combinatorial optimization

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Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid development of information technology and robotics, multiagent systems (MAS), due to their strong fault tolerance, robustness, and scalability, have become an effective method that can model, analyze, and compute autonomous multi-subject systems, now widely used in traffic light signal control, unmanned driving, smart warehousing and logistics, UAV collaboration, and emerging large language model planning and collaboration. The aim of the Special Issue is to bring together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and to provide a single, high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics;
  • Engineering multiagent systems;
  • Humans and AI/human–agent interaction;
  • Innovative applications, in particular addressing the sustainable development goals;
  • Knowledge representation, reasoning, and planning;
  • Learning and adaptation;
  • Markets, auctions, and non-cooperative game theory;
  • Modeling and simulation of societies;
  • (Multiagent) Reinforcement learning;
  • Robotics;
  • Large language model agents.

We look forward to receiving your contributions. 

Dr. Wanyuan Wang
Dr. Yifeng Zhou
Dr. Vincent Chau
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • multiagent systems
  • large language model agents
  • reinforcement learning
  • planning
  • machine Learning

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Research on Real-Time Multi-Robot Task Allocation Method Based on Monte Carlo Tree Search
by Huiying Zhang, Yule Sun and Fengzhi Zheng
Electronics 2024, 13(24), 4943; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13244943 - 15 Dec 2024
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Abstract
Task allocation is an important problem in multi-robot systems, particularly in dynamic and unpredictable environments such as offshore oil platforms, large-scale factories, or disaster response scenarios, where high change rates, uncertain state transitions, and varying task demands challenge the predictability and stability of [...] Read more.
Task allocation is an important problem in multi-robot systems, particularly in dynamic and unpredictable environments such as offshore oil platforms, large-scale factories, or disaster response scenarios, where high change rates, uncertain state transitions, and varying task demands challenge the predictability and stability of robot operations. Traditional static task allocation strategies often struggle to meet the efficiency and responsiveness demands of these complex settings, while optimization heuristics, though improving planning time, exhibit limited scalability. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a task allocation method based on the Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm, which leverages the anytime property of MCTS to achieve a balance between fast response and continuous optimization. Firstly, the centralized adaptive MCTS algorithm generates preliminary solutions and monitors the state of the robots in minimal time. It utilizes dynamic Upper Confidence Bounds for Trees (UCT) values to accommodate varying task dimensions, outperforming the heuristic Multi-Robot Goal Assignment (MRGA) method in both planning time and overall task completion time. Furthermore, the parallelized distributed MCTS algorithm reduces algorithmic complexity and enhances computational efficiency through importance sampling and parallel processing. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly reduces computation time while maintaining task allocation performance, decreasing the variance of planning results and improving algorithmic stability. Our approach enables more flexible and efficient task allocation in dynamically evolving and complex environments, providing robust support for the deployment of multi-robot systems. Full article
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