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24 Citations
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A Multi-Agent Architecture for Data Analysis

  • Gianfranco Lombardo,
  • Paolo Fornacciari,
  • Monica Mordonini,
  • Michele Tomaiuolo and
  • Agostino Poggi

18 February 2019

ActoDatA (Actor Data Analysis) is an actor-based software library for the development of distributed data mining applications. It provides a multi-agent architecture with a set of predefined and configurable agents performing the typical tasks of dat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary Feature Papers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,725 Views
30 Pages

cyberSPADE: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Architecture for Coordinated Cyberdefense

  • Lucía Alba Torres,
  • Miguel Rebollo,
  • Javier Palanca and
  • Mario Aragonés Lozano

Modern cyber threats demand coordinated defensive strategies that extend beyond centralized security mechanisms. However, existing multi-agent platforms exhibit critical limitations in explicit communication and real-time coordination for cyberdefens...

(This article belongs to the Section Security Engineering & Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
17,399 Views
26 Pages

A Multi-Agent System Architecture for Sensor Networks

  • Rubén Fuentes-Fernández,
  • María Guijarro and
  • Gonzalo Pajares

17 December 2009

The design of the control systems for sensor networks presents important challenges. Besides the traditional problems about how to process the sensor data to obtain the target information, engineers need to consider additional aspects such as the het...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain)
  • Article
  • Open Access
621 Views
21 Pages

17 September 2026

Information architecture may shape harmful conduct in dynamic multi-agent systems, yet its relationship to objectively measured misrepresentation remains unclear. We examine seller-only communication and market-wide public history in a repeated hidde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Responsible AI: Alignment, Decentralization, and Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems Across Dynamic Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,799 Views
29 Pages

18 June 2021

Vital sign monitoring outside the clinical environment based on wearable sensors ensures better support in assessing a patient’s health condition, and in case of health deterioration, automatic alerts can be sent to the care providers. In everyday li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Activity Detection and Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
352 Views
40 Pages

30 September 2026

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) gives language models access to external text and image collections, but it does not make the decisions taken on that content reproducible. Classical Belief–Desire–Intention (BDI) agents provide explic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Applications of Large Language Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,030 Views
31 Pages

4 August 2026

Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems built on LangGraph-style frameworks share an unencrypted state store with no field-level read access control, so one agent can read another’s private fields. The 2026 OWASP Agentic Top 10 and CVE-2...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques for Security and Privacy in Information Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,667 Views
19 Pages

A Multi-Agent Chatbot Architecture for AI-Driven Language Learning

  • Moneerh Aleedy,
  • Eric Atwell and
  • Souham Meshoul

1 October 2025

Language learners increasingly rely on intelligent digital tools to supplement their learning experiences, yet existing chatbots often provide limited support, lacking adaptability, personalization, or domain-specific intelligence. This study introdu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Digital Technology and AI in Educational Settings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,898 Views
35 Pages

A Multi-Agent NILM Architecture for Event Detection and Load Classification

  • André Eugenio Lazzaretti,
  • Douglas Paulo Bertrand Renaux,
  • Carlos Raimundo Erig Lima,
  • Bruna Machado Mulinari and ,
  • Hellen Cristina Ancelmo,
  • Elder Oroski,
  • Fabiana Pöttker,
  • Robson Ribeiro Linhares,
  • Lucas da Silva Nolasco and
  • Rodrigo Braun dos Santos
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

26 August 2020

A multi-agent architecture for a Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) solution is presented and evaluated. The underlying rationale for such an architecture is that each agent (load event detection, feature extraction, and classification) outperforms...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Energy Systems 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,012 Views
15 Pages

1 December 2018

We study big-data hybrid-data-processing lambda architecture, which consolidates low-latency real-time frameworks with high-throughput Hadoop-batch frameworks over a massively distributed setup. In particular, real-time and batch-processing engines a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Stream Mining and Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
176 Views
31 Pages

29 October 2026

God agents, i.e., agents that accumulate excessive responsibilities, have become an increasingly common problem in modern multi-agent systems and agent frameworks. As business logic grows, interaction scenarios become more complex, and agents are exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
602 Views
19 Pages

Cyber wargaming serves as a core tool for simulating cyber confrontations and supporting operational decision verification. Existing multi-agent methods face issues such as the absence of cross-level mechanisms and poor adaptability to dynamic enviro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,785 Views
19 Pages

21 July 2023

In this paper, we propose an enhanced version of the distributed attentional actor architecture (eDA3-X) for model-free reinforcement learning. This architecture is designed to facilitate the interpretability of learned coordinated behaviors in multi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable AI (XAI) for Information Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
600 Views
29 Pages

Large Language Models have rapidly advanced, enabling composite multi-agent systems capable of sophisticated text-based collaboration. In domains that demand coordinated reasoning, teams of agents can combine complementary strengths to produce better...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,366 Views
23 Pages

Multi-Agent-Based Traffic Prediction and Traffic Classification for Autonomic Network Management Systems for Future Networks

  • Sisay Tadesse Arzo,
  • Zeinab Akhavan,
  • Mona Esmaeili,
  • Michael Devetsikiotis and
  • Fabrizio Granelli

Recently, a multi-agent based network automation architecture has been proposed. The architecture is named multi-agent based network automation of the network management system (MANA-NMS). The architectural framework introduced atomized network funct...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,910 Views
20 Pages

Towards Agrirobot Digital Twins: Agri-RO5—A Multi-Agent Architecture for Dynamic Fleet Simulation

  • Jorge Gutiérrez Cejudo,
  • Francisco Enguix Andrés,
  • Marin Lujak,
  • Carlos Carrascosa Casamayor and ,
  • Alberto Fernandez and
  • Luís Hernández López
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent-based architecture for a Unity3D simulation of dynamic agrirobot-fleet-coordination methods. The architecture is based on a Robot Operating System (ROS) and Agrobots-SIM package that extends the existing packag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Architectures for Hybrid Edge Analytics Models on Adaptive Smart Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,810 Views
31 Pages

Existing autonomous trading systems rely on collaborative or single-agent analysis, lacking structured mechanisms for adversarial deliberation across opposing market perspectives. We propose Consensus-Gated Execution (CGX), a multi-agent architecture...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Technologies and Smart City)
  • Article
  • Open Access
498 Views
25 Pages

CAMA: A Confidence-Aware Multi-Agent System with Adaptive Depth Routing for Automated Writing Assessment

  • Zhiwu Yin,
  • Jieren Zhang,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Jianqiang Liang and ,
  • Xing Wu and
  • Jianbiao Dai
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Existing multi-agent systems for automated writing assessment (AWA) suffer from three structural limitations: uniform agent weighting, fixed-depth computation, and lack of empirical auditing. To resolve these challenges, we propose CAMA, a Confidence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,833 Views
25 Pages

Combining a Multi-Agent System and Communication Middleware for Smart Home Control: A Universal Control Platform Architecture

  • Song Zheng,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Rong Zheng,
  • Bi-Qin Huang and ,
  • Yi-Lin Song and
  • Xin-Chu Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 September 2017

In recent years, the smart home field has gained wide attention for its broad application prospects. However, families using smart home systems must usually adopt various heterogeneous smart devices, including sensors and devices, which makes it more...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sensors for Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
846 Views
26 Pages

11 May 2026

This research presents the architecture, implementation, and validation of a novel Agentic Large Model (ALM) framework for in silico patient simulation, synergistically combining pharmacokinetic modeling with autonomous clinical reasoning. The multi-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Innovations in Healthcare: Advances in Machine Learning and Computer Vision, 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
179 Citations
71,021 Views
50 Pages

The Rise of Agentic AI: A Review of Definitions, Frameworks, Architectures, Applications, Evaluation Metrics, and Challenges

  • Ajay Bandi,
  • Bhavani Kongari,
  • Roshini Naguru,
  • Sahitya Pasnoor and
  • Sri Vidya Vilipala

4 September 2025

Agentic AI systems are a recently emerged and important approach that goes beyond traditional AI, generative AI, and autonomous systems by focusing on autonomy, adaptability, and goal-driven reasoning. This study provides a clear review of agentic AI...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence: Innovation, Applications and Transformative Experiences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
515 Views
34 Pages

Agentic AI Automation Framework for Computer Network Monitoring and Management

  • Alif Najwan bin Hishamuddin,
  • Mohamed Hadi Habaebi,
  • Md Rafiqul Islam and
  • Mohammed Abdullah Salem Al-Hussaini

8 October 2026

Autonomous network management requires balancing rapid incident resolution with strict operational safety. This paper introduces a production-inspired, end-to-end multi-agent orchestration architecture for network fault diagnosis and resolution. Buil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
357 Views
34 Pages

23 September 2026

Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) reduces the technical requirements for applying machine learning, yet existing systems still demand technical expertise, optimize inefficiently, and rarely support conversational use. We present a conversational Au...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,304 Views
29 Pages

Building a Regional Platform for Monitoring Air Quality

  • Stanimir Nedyalkov Stoyanov,
  • Boyan Lyubomirov Belichev,
  • Veneta Veselinova Tabakova-Komsalova,
  • Yordan Georgiev Todorov and ,
  • Angel Atanasov Golev,
  • Georgi Kostadinov Maglizhanov,
  • Ivan Stanimirov Stoyanov and
  • Asya Georgieva Stoyanova-Doycheva
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 February 2026

This paper presents PLAM (Plovdiv Air Monitoring)—a regional multi-agent platform for air quality monitoring, semantic reasoning, and forecasting. The platform uses a hybrid architecture that combines two types of intelligent agents: classic BD...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Agents and Their Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,403 Views
45 Pages

Large language model (LLM)-based artificial intelligence is increasingly used in ethically consequential human decision-making, yet fully autonomous machine ethics remains unrealistic, motivating architectures that support rather than replace human e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
475 Views
23 Pages

Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) requires real-time control systems that connect high-level Decision Support Systems with resource-constrained edge devices. This paper presents a hybrid Multi-Agent System (MAS) architecture for swine precision feedi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precision Feeding, Digital Twins and Decision-Support Systems for Livestock Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
929 Views
32 Pages

Modelling constitutes a disciplined transformation process through which heterogeneous, unstructured evidence is translated into structured representations that support reasoning and decision-making. The integration of generative artificial intellige...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling in the Era of Generative AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,691 Views
17 Pages

R-Snort: A Performance-Optimized Multi-Agent NIDS Architecture for SOHO and Edge-of-Things Networks Using Snort 3 on Raspberry Pi 5

  • Julio Gómez López,
  • Deian Orlando Petrovics Tabacu,
  • Nicolás Padilla Soriano and
  • Alfredo Alcayde García

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) are critical to ensuring the resilience of modern digital infrastructures. Although traditionally deployed in large-scale corporate environments, the expanding threat landscape requires the integration of r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intrusion Detection and Trust Provisioning in Edge-of-Things Environment)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
227 Views
29 Pages

Smart-city infrastructure is increasingly operated through cyber–physical systems that combine embedded sensing, edge computing, communication networks, automation platforms, and digital-twin environments. The emerging industrial metaverse exte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applying Virtual Worlds Knowledge: Methods, Evaluation, and Effective Transfer of Knowledge into Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,600 Views
42 Pages

23 February 2026

Caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) frequently experience chronic psychological stress, thereby necessitating accessible support. Although artificial intelligence (AI)-based assisted technologies have the potential to reduce ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Data Processing and Management: Technologies and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,515 Views
35 Pages

28 April 2026

This paper presents a systematic, data-driven literature review of research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents based on the top 100 Google Scholar publications related to the search terms “AI agent” and “AI agents”. The ra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Computing Sciences for Artificial Intelligence, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
812 Views
29 Pages

Biomimicry at the Landscape Scale: Agent-Based Model Simulating Beaver-Inspired Construction

  • Federico Oliva,
  • Jordan Kennedy,
  • Justin Werfel,
  • Karen Lee Bar-Sinai and
  • Amir Degani

Natural landscape morphology emerges from continuous, reciprocal interactions between biological agents and their physical environment. Despite its broad application across diverse scientific fields, agent-based modeling remains underexplored in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomimicry, Eco-Mimicry and Eco-Design in Architecture: Transformation towards Sustainable Regeneration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,333 Views
23 Pages

18 April 2023

This paper investigates the observability of discrete-time two-time-scale multi-agent systems with heterogeneous features under leader–follower architecture. First, a singular perturbation difference model for the discussed system is establishe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Game Theory and Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,137 Views
20 Pages

Modeling Theory of Mind in Dyadic Games Using Adaptive Feedback Control

  • Ismael T. Freire,
  • Xerxes D. Arsiwalla,
  • Jordi-Ysard Puigbò and
  • Paul Verschure

4 August 2023

A major challenge in cognitive science and AI has been to understand how intelligent autonomous agents might acquire and predict the behavioral and mental states of other agents in the course of complex social interactions. How does such an agent mod...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
551 Views
18 Pages

Transient Dynamic Feature Adaptive Cooperative Control for Renewable Grids via Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Mingyu Pang,
  • Min Li,
  • Xi Ye,
  • Peng Shi and ,
  • Zongsheng Zheng,
  • Lai Yuan and
  • Hongwen Tan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The increasing integration of inverter-based distributed energy resources (DERs) significantly reduces power system inertia, posing critical challenges to transient stability. Traditional fault ride-through strategies, relying on passive and localize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,694 Views
30 Pages

28 January 2026

Intelligent Tutoring Systems are increasingly used in higher education to support personalized learning and academic monitoring in large-scale digital environments. However, existing systems are predominantly based on static architecture and rigid ru...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,750 Views
35 Pages

DACCA: Distributed Adaptive Cloud Continuum Architecture

  • Nektarios Deligiannakis,
  • Vassilis Papataxiarhis,
  • Michalis Loukeris,
  • Stathes Hadjiefthymiades and ,
  • Marios Touloupou,
  • Syed Mafooq Ul Hassan,
  • Herodotos Herodotou,
  • Thanasis Moustakas,
  • Emmanouil Bampis and
  • Pablo Strasser
  • + 13 authors+ 8 authors

1 February 2026

Recently, the need for unified orchestration frameworks that can manage extremely heterogeneous, distributed, and resource-constrained environments has emerged due to the rapid development of cloud, edge, and IoT computing. Kubernetes and other tradi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scalable and Distributed Cloud Continuum Orchestration for Next-Generation IoT Applications: Latest Advances and Prospects—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,330 Views
27 Pages

PCF-RWKV: Large Language Model for Product Carbon Footprint Estimation

  • Zhen Li,
  • Peihao Tang,
  • Xuanlin Wang,
  • Xueping Liu and
  • Peng Mou

6 February 2025

As global climate change intensifies, assessing product carbon footprints serves as a foundational step for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions throughout a product’s lifecycle, forming the basis for achieving sustainability and emission reduc...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and IoT for Promoting Green Operation and Sustainable Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,331 Views
24 Pages

LLM Firewall Using Validator Agent for Prevention Against Prompt Injection Attacks

  • Michal Podpora,
  • Marek Baranowski,
  • Maciej Chopcian,
  • Lukasz Kwasniewicz and
  • Wojciech Radziewicz

21 December 2025

Large Language Models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation are considered to be modern, chat-native interfaces to enterprise knowledge. However, deploying such systems safely requires precautions more advanced than input filtering. Numerous LLM-relate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
848 Views
29 Pages

Priority-Driven Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems with Fine-Tuned LLMs

  • Alberto Tudela,
  • Óscar Pons,
  • José Galeas,
  • Juan Pedro Bandera and
  • Antonio Bandera

19 August 2026

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environments aim to enable older people to remain active and lead an autonomous and independent life for as long as possible. Among the technologies that can be incorporated into these settings, socially assistive robots...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reimagining Rehabilitation: Assistive Robotics, AI, and the Future of Movement)
  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,761 Views
23 Pages

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are being seen as the most promising type of autonomous vehicles in the context of intelligent transportation system (ITS) technology. A key enabling factor for the current development of ITS...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and AI Technology for Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
868 Views
21 Pages

21 April 2026

This paper presents an adaptive optimal consensus tracking control scheme for canonical nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) with unknown dynamics, employing an actor–critic reinforcement learning (RL) framework. The scheme integrates a sliding...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Control Systems: Theory, Design, and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,443 Views
31 Pages

14 August 2025

We present Liquid Adaptive AI as a theoretical framework and mathematical basis for artificial intelligence systems capable of continuous structural adaptation and autonomous capability development. This work explores the conceptual boundaries of ada...

(This article belongs to the Topic The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Trends, Challenges, and Developments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,206 Views
31 Pages

An Exploratory Study of a Generative AI-Based Intelligent Tutoring System Using a Multi-Agent Architecture in Higher Education

  • Juan P. López-Goyez,
  • Alfonso González-Briones,
  • Yves Demazeau and
  • Jhonatan M. Guaytarilla G.

30 May 2026

This article presents ELA Tutor, a generative AI-based Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) built on a Multi-Agent System (MAS) architecture and implemented using the n8n platform to support personalized learning processes in higher education. The propo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Digital Technology and AI in Educational Settings)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,375 Views
19 Pages

Cooperating and Competing Digital Twins for Industrie 4.0 in Urban Planning Contexts

  • Otthein Herzog,
  • Matthias Jarke and
  • Siegfried Zhiqiang Wu

28 November 2023

Digital twins are emerging as a prime analysis, prediction, and control concepts for enabling the Industrie 4.0 vision of cyber-physical production systems (CPPSs). Today’s growing complexity and volatility cannot be handled by monolithic digit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industry 4.0 – The Global Industrial Revolution: Achievements, Obstacles and Research Needs for the Digital Transformation of Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,919 Views
21 Pages

30 January 2026

Industrial PLC programming faces persistent difficulties: lengthy development cycles, low fault tolerance, and cross-platform incompatibility among vendors. While LLMs show promise for automated code generation, their direct application is hindered b...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,323 Views
39 Pages

15 November 2025

The digital transformation in the treatment of mental health and emotional disharmony requires artificial intelligence architectures that overcome the limitations of purely neural approaches, such as temporal inconsistency, opacity, and lack of theor...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,957 Views
31 Pages

25 February 2021

Although Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) provides a paradigm to accommodate frequent changes in manufacturing sector, modeling and managing operations of CPS are challenging issues due to the complex interactions between entities in the system. Developm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Assembly System Design in the Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
677 Views
16 Pages

Traditional Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) rely on static thresholds to detect automated threats. While effective against simple scripts, these deterministic rules struggle with “Ambiguous Traffic”—sophisticated bots that mimic hu...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
727 Views
30 Pages

Empathetic dialogue systems built upon large language models overwhelmingly adopt a monolithic inference paradigm that processes emotion perception, causal reasoning, memory retrieval, and response planning within a single forward pass without archit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Affective Computing in Human–Robot Interaction)

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