Collaborative Intelligence for Connected Agents
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Big Data and Augmented Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 1570
Editors
Interests: multi-agent systems; intelligent transportation systems
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Interests: internet of vehicles; edge intelligence; vehicular networking
Interests: multimodal perception; multi-agent collaboration; computer vision
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the continuous advancement of intelligent and connected technologies, multi-agent collaboration has evolved into a core paradigm for shaping the intelligent societies of the future. Historically, close human collaboration has driven leaps in productivity; similarly, the transition of machine intelligence from “single-agent intelligence” to “collaborative intelligence” signals a fundamental transformation in system capabilities and efficiency. This shift builds upon breakthroughs in perception, cognition, and decision-making at the single-agent level, providing a solid foundation for large-scale collective perception, distributed reasoning, and autonomous collaborative decision-making. Against this backdrop, multi-agent collaborative technologies are expanding their transformative application potential across diverse domains.
However, transitioning from independently operating intelligent agents to highly autonomous collaborative groups remains a systemic challenge. This difficulty primarily revolves around three key dimensions: collaborative perception, collaborative cognition, and collaborative decision-making, representing the main bottlenecks that constrain multi-agent systems from evolving toward higher-order, more generalizable collective intelligence paradigms. Addressing these challenges systematically is not merely a matter of incremental technical improvement; it is the essential pathway for advancing the field from “single-agent intelligence” to “collective intelligence.”
This Special Issue welcomes high-quality submissions on multi-agent collaborative intelligence, with a focus on collective perception, cognition, and decision-making. Contributions addressing theoretical, algorithmic, and system-level aspects are encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Collaborative perception and sensor fusion for multi-agent systems;
- Collaborative cognitive modeling and shared world representations;
- Multi-agent decision-making, task allocation, and coordination strategies;
- Communication-efficient coordination and information sharing among agents;
- Collaborative localization, mapping, positioning, and navigation in multi-agent networks;
- Edge–cloud and hybrid computing architectures supporting multi-agent collaboration;
- Privacy, security, and trustworthiness in multi-agent systems;
- Human–robot or human–AI collaborative intelligence;
- Swarm intelligence and large-scale autonomous agent coordination;
- Adaptive planning and resource management for dynamic multi-agent scenarios;
- Benchmark datasets, evaluation metrics, and reproducible research for collaborative multi-agent systems.
Dr. Guiyang Luo
Prof. Dr. Kaige Qu
Dr. Hui Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multi-agent systems
- collaborative perception
- multi-agent decision-making
- collaborative localization
- collaborative navigation
- collaborative intelligence
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