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135 Citations
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27 January 2021

Intelligent and autonomous agents is a subarea of symbolic artificial intelligence where these agents decide, either reactively or proactively, upon a course of action by reasoning about the information that is available about the world (including th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Paper in Computers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,603 Views
15 Pages

Consensus of Fixed and Adaptive Coupled Multi-Agent Systems with Communication Delays

  • Zicheng Qiu,
  • Sheng Tian,
  • Baoping Zhou,
  • Qi Han and ,
  • Yuan Tian,
  • Tengfei Weng and
  • Turghunjan Mamut
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This paper aims to solve the consensus problem of three different types of multi-agent systems under fixed communication delay. For these three different types of multi-agent systems, three new control protocols are constructed to solve the consensus...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,681 Views
7 Pages

Multi-Agent Systems

  • Vicente Julian and
  • Vicente Botti

3 April 2019

With the current advance of technology, agent-based applications are becoming a standard in a great variety of domains such as e-commerce, logistics, supply chain management, telecommunications, healthcare, and manufacturing. Another reason for the w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Agent Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
13,929 Views
62 Pages

A Survey of Multi-Agent Systems for Smartgrids

  • Yusuf Izmirlioglu,
  • Loc Pham,
  • Tran Cao Son and
  • Enrico Pontelli

23 July 2024

This paper provides a survey of the literature on the application of Multi-agent Systems (MAS) technology for Smartgrids. Smartgrids represent the next generation electric network, as communities are developing self-sufficient and environmentally fri...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,259 Views
14 Pages

4 October 2022

The comprehensive and safe application of unmanned surface vessels is certainly one of the biggest challenges currently facing maritime science. Such vessels can be implemented within a wide range of autonomy levels that goes from remote-controlled v...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,809 Views
23 Pages

3 April 2025

We introduce a prototyping language for multi-agent systems with information sharing, allowing agents to act in parallel and to migrate between distributed locations according to explicit timers. While all agents have access to public information, ea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,549 Views
19 Pages

31 October 2024

The consensus problem of a multi-agent system with nonlinear second-order underactuated agents is addressed. The essence of the approach can be outlined as follows: the output is redesigned first so that the agents attain the minimum-phase property....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Methods Applied in Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems, 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
8,476 Views
31 Pages

The Application of Ontologies in Multi-Agent Systems in the Energy Sector: A Scoping Review

  • Zheng Ma,
  • Mette Jessen Schultz,
  • Kristoffer Christensen,
  • Magnus Værbak and ,
  • Yves Demazeau and
  • Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 August 2019

Multi-agent systems are well-known for their expressiveness to explore interactions and knowledge representation in complex systems. Multi-agent systems have been applied in the energy domain since the 1990s. As more applications of multi-agent syste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Agent Energy Systems Simulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,281 Views
19 Pages

Impulsive Control of Variable Fractional-Order Multi-Agent Systems

  • Ravi P. Agarwal,
  • Snezhana Hristova and
  • Donal O’Regan

The main goal of the paper is to present and study models of multi-agent systems for which the dynamics of the agents are described by a Caputo fractional derivative of variable order and a kernel that depends on an increasing function. Also, the ord...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional-Order Multiagent Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,122 Views
27 Pages

12 June 2025

Neurodynamics is recognized as a powerful tool for addressing various problems in engineering, control, and intelligent systems. Over the past decade, neurodynamics-based methods and models have been rapidly developed, particularly in emerging areas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Intelligent Control and Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,735 Views
23 Pages

Observer-Based PID Control Protocol of Positive Multi-Agent Systems

  • Xiaogang Yang,
  • Mengxing Huang,
  • Yuanyuan Wu and
  • Siling Feng

12 January 2023

This paper proposes the observer-based proportional-integral-derivative control of positive multi-agent systems. First, a positive observer is constructed for the considered multi-agent systems in terms of a matrix decomposition approach. Then, a nov...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,271 Views
30 Pages

On the Synergy between Virtual Reality and Multi-Agent Systems

  • Alejandra Ospina-Bohórquez,
  • Sara Rodríguez-González and
  • Diego Vergara-Rodríguez

13 April 2021

Multi-agent systems integrate a great variety of artificial intelligence techniques from different fields, these systems have made it possible to create intelligent systems more efficiently. On the other hand, virtual reality applications are accepte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Virtual and Augmented Reality Learning Environments for Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,141 Views
14 Pages

2 June 2015

This paper studies consensus and \(H_\infty\) consensus problems for heterogeneous multi-agent systems composed of first-order and second-order integrator agents. We first rewrite the multi-agent systems into the corresponding reduced-order systems b...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,364 Views
9 Pages

Special Issue “Multi-Agent Systems”: Editorial

  • Stefano Mariani and
  • Andrea Omicini

6 March 2019

Multi-agent systems (MAS) allow and promote the development of distributed and intelligent applications in complex and dynamic environments. Applications of this kind have a crucial role in our everyday life, as witnessed by the broad range of domain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Agent Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
13,583 Views
24 Pages

Resilient Consensus Control for Multi-Agent Systems: A Comparative Survey

  • Jingyao Wang,
  • Xingming Deng,
  • Jinghua Guo and
  • Zeqin Zeng

7 March 2023

Due to the openness of communication network and the complexity of system structures, multi-agent systems are vulnerable to malicious network attacks, which can cause intense instability to these systems. This article provides a survey of state-of-th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Progress on Intelligent Electric Vehicles)
  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,269 Views
28 Pages

Reviewing Microgrids from a Multi-Agent Systems Perspective

  • Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz,
  • Sandra Garcia-Rodriguez,
  • Nuria Cuartero-Soler and
  • Luis Hernandez-Callejo

22 May 2014

The construction of Smart Grids leads to the main question of what kind of intelligence such grids require and how to build it. Some authors choose an agent based solution to realize this intelligence. However, there may be some misunderstandings in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Grids: The Electrical Power Network and Communication System)
  • 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
4 Citations
3,922 Views
21 Pages

Predefined Time Synchronization of Multi-Agent Systems: A Passivity Based Analysis

  • Vinay Pandey,
  • Eram Taslima,
  • Bhawana Singh,
  • Shyam Kamal and
  • Thach Ngoc Dinh

10 April 2023

This paper deals with the predefined-time synchronization for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems. The notion of passivity is exploited to design the controller for predefined-time synchronization of a nonlinear multi-agent system, where the tim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security Control for a Cyber–Physical System and/or Multi-Agent System under Fault or Malicious Attack)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
9,294 Views
20 Pages

A Decentralized Framework for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems

  • Andrés C. Jiménez,
  • Vicente García-Díaz and
  • Sandro Bolaños

1 February 2018

Over the past few years, decentralization of multi-agent robotic systems has become an important research area. These systems do not depend on a central control unit, which enables the control and assignment of distributed, asynchronous and robust ta...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,967 Views
10 Pages

20 November 2024

This paper presents a comprehensive approach to modeling interacting tanks as a multi-agent system. The primary goal is to develop a model that considers the dynamics of each agent and their interconnection so that the behavior of the whole system ca...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The XXXII Conference on Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,242 Views
35 Pages

7 September 2021

Widespread access to low-cost, high computing power allows for increased computerization of everyday life. However, high-performance computers alone cannot meet the demands of systems such as the Internet of Things or multi-agent robotic systems. For...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Industrial Robotics and Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,315 Views
17 Pages

Safe 3D Coverage Control for Multi-Agent Systems

  • Wenbin Liu,
  • Kritapas Borikarnphanichphaisal,
  • Jie Song,
  • Olga Vasilieva and
  • Mikhail Svinin

10 April 2025

Multi-agent coverage control plays a crucial role in the modeling and coordination of complex systems, especially for teams of robots that, through frequent interactions with each other and their environment, can accomplish complex tasks in a distrib...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Design of Linear/Nonlinear Control System)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,730 Views
24 Pages

31 August 2022

A system is considered in which agents (UAVs) must cooperatively discover interest-points (i.e., burning trees, geographical features) evolving over a grid. The objective is to locate as many interest-points as possible in the shortest possible time...

(This article belongs to the Collection Unmanned Aerial Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,716 Views
18 Pages

The maritime domain is experiencing significant transformation, driven by the integration of autonomous technologies. Autonomous ships and smart maritime systems depend on the sophisticated interplay of artificial intelligence, sensor infrastructures...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,342 Views
6 Pages

Special Issue “Multi-Agent Systems”: Editorial

  • Stefano Mariani and
  • Andrea Omicini

1 August 2020

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are built around the central notions of agents, interaction, and environment. Agents are autonomous computational entities able to pro-actively pursue goals, and re-actively adapt to environment change. In doing so, they lev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Agent Systems 2019)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,020 Views
16 Pages

31 January 2024

The exponential stability criteria of systems with time delays on time scales are established, which unifies and generalizes the continuous and discrete cases. The time derivatives of Lyapunov functions (functionals) along solutions are allowed to be...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Stability and Control of Dynamical Systems)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,584 Views
4 Pages

27 February 2023

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are collections of autonomous computational entities (the agents) capable of pro-actively pursuing goals and re-actively adapting to environment change. Agents in MAS exploit their social abilities, interacting with peers, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multi-Agent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,155 Views
23 Pages

28 January 2026

In multi-agent systems, the interactions between autonomous agents within dynamic and uncertain environments are crucial for achieving their objectives. Current research leverages model checking techniques to verify these interactions, with social ac...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,129 Views
18 Pages

7 November 2023

Ensemble clustering, a paradigm that deals with combining the results of multiple clusterings into a single solution, has been widely studied in recent years. The goal of this study is to propose a novel distributed ensemble clustering method that is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,114 Views
20 Pages

2 August 2024

This paper presents safe coverage control algorithms for multi-agent systems, integrating Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT) and control barrier functions (CBFs). This study aims to ensure safety and spatial optimization by combining CVT and CBFs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Topics on Robotic Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,990 Views
12 Pages

A Discrete-Time Fractional-Order Flocking Control Algorithm of Multi-Agent Systems

  • Haotian Chen,
  • Ming He,
  • Wei Han,
  • Sicong Liu and
  • Chenyue Wei

In this paper, a discrete-time fractional flocking control algorithm of multi-agent systems is put forward to address the slow convergence issue of multi-agent systems. Firstly, by introducing Grünwald-Letnikov (G-L) fractional derivatives, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional-Order Multiagent Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,889 Views
17 Pages

23 October 2019

Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) are often used to optimize the use of the resources available in an environment. A flaw during the modelling phase or an unanticipated scenario during their execution, however, can make the agents behave not as planned. As...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Agent Systems 2019)
  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,845 Views
35 Pages

28 November 2021

Distributed control solutions to the multi-agent systems in terms of coordination, formation, and consensus problems are extensively studied in the literature. The circular formation control of multi-agent systems becomes one of the most challenging...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,281 Views
13 Pages

AI-Supported Decision Making in Multi-Agent Production Systems Using the Example of the Oil and Gas Industry

  • Polina A. Sharko,
  • Zhanna V. Burlutskaya,
  • Daria A. Zubkova,
  • Aleksei M. Gintciak and
  • Kapiton N. Pospelov

12 May 2025

This study focuses on the development of a decision support system for complex production systems. As a promising approach to resource allocation challenges, the application of AI tools, particularly the multi-agent approach, is proposed. It is hypot...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
733 Views
15 Pages

Motivated by the inefficiencies where multi-agent systems fail to reconcile individual agent self-interest with global optimality and accommodate dynamic tasks as its population increases, this paper investigates a clustering allocation problem for l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Strategies and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
888 Views
34 Pages

4 July 2026

Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems are increasingly being explored as tools for supporting structured collective decision-making, but it remains unclear how the diversity structure of agent groups affects decision-making performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
756 Views
23 Pages

Research on Multi-Agent Event-Triggered Control Algorithms for Power Systems

  • Yanming Chen,
  • Qiming Sun,
  • Ying Zhang and
  • Chengxuan Li

27 May 2026

Multi-agent systems are widely used in modern power systems, but they face challenges such as low data utilization, stringent triggering conditions, and poor environmental adaptability. This study proposes a multi-agent event-triggered control method...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,984 Views
10 Pages

Palliative Care and Multi-Agent Systems: A Necessary Paradigm Shift

  • Kimberley C. Brondeel,
  • Sheina A. Duncan,
  • Patrick M. Luther,
  • Alexandra Anderson and ,
  • Pranav Bhargava,
  • Chizoba Mosieri,
  • Shahab Ahmadzadeh,
  • Sahar Shekoohi,
  • Elyse M. Cornett and
  • Alan D. Kaye
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

3 April 2023

Palliative care is intended to relieve caregivers of physical, psychological, and even spiritual elements of care. One of the most prevalent issues facing this form of care is a lack of healthcare resources and structures to deal with an aging popula...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2023 Feature Papers in Clinics and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,431 Views
19 Pages

12 September 2020

The agent paradigm and multi-agent systems are a perfect match for the design of smart cities because of some of their essential features such as decentralization, openness, and heterogeneity. However, these major advantages also come at a great cost...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
18,568 Views
35 Pages

LLM Agents for Smart City Management: Enhancing Decision Support Through Multi-Agent AI Systems

  • Anna Kalyuzhnaya,
  • Sergey Mityagin,
  • Elizaveta Lutsenko,
  • Andrey Getmanov and ,
  • Yaroslav Aksenkin,
  • Kamil Fatkhiev,
  • Kirill Fedorin,
  • Nikolay O. Nikitin,
  • Natalia Chichkova and
  • Alexander Boukhanovsky
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

This study investigates the implementation of LLM agents in smart city management, leveraging both the inherent language processing abilities of LLMs and the distributed problem solving capabilities of multi-agent systems for the improvement of urban...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data and AI Services for Sustainable Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,618 Views
18 Pages

7 August 2024

This study explores fault-tolerant consensus in leader–following heterogeneous multi-agent systems, focusing on actuator failures in uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs). An optimization-based fault-tolerant conse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,089 Views
14 Pages

12 December 2020

In this paper, the stability problem of a class of multi-agent tracking systems with quasi-cyclic switching topologies is investigated. The existing results of systems with switching topologies are usually achieved based on the assumption that the pi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Agent Systems 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,853 Views
11 Pages

18 January 2016

This paper considers the consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems under switching directed topologies. Specifically, the dynamics of each agent incorporates an intrinsic nonlinear term and the interaction topology may not contain a spanning...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,944 Views
10 Pages

Preassigned-Time Bipartite Flocking Consensus Problem in Multi-Agent Systems

  • Xiejun Cheng,
  • Jiashang Yu,
  • Xiurong Chen,
  • Jiaju Yu and
  • Bing Cheng

18 May 2023

This article is concerned with the bipartite flocking problem in multi-agent systems. Our contributions can be summarized as follows. Firstly, a class of preassigned-time consensus protocols is proposed to solve the issue of multi-agent systems. Seco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Optimization Theory, Algorithm and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
127 Citations
24,974 Views
29 Pages

Multi-Agent Systems and Complex Networks: Review and Applications in Systems Engineering

  • Manuel Herrera,
  • Marco Pérez-Hernández,
  • Ajith Kumar Parlikad and
  • Joaquín Izquierdo

8 March 2020

Systems engineering is an ubiquitous discipline of Engineering overlapping industrial, chemical, mechanical, manufacturing, control, software, electrical, and civil engineering. It provides tools for dealing with the complexity and dynamics related t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control and Optimization of Multi-Agent Systems and Complex Networks for Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
664 Views
53 Pages

GSMultiAgent: A Multi-Agent Loop Framework atop Hermes Agent for Intelligent Design of Guidance Systems

  • Jisong Xiao,
  • Chengwei Yang,
  • Xiao Xu,
  • Yachao Yang and ,
  • Yanheng Li,
  • Longyuan Zhang and
  • Yu Yang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 August 2026

The strong coupling among guidance laws, control loops, aerodynamics, and mission constraints poses growing challenges to the design of modern tactical missile guidance systems for autonomous flight. Conventional manual tuning and simulation-based tr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Multidisciplinary Optimization and Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Aerospace Engineering (Volume III))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,326 Views
21 Pages

Game-Based Consensus of Switching Multi-Agent Systems

  • Baihe Liu,
  • Pengyu Wang,
  • Zhijian Ji and
  • Hao Wang

13 November 2025

This paper investigates the leader–follower consensus problem for a class of second-order multi-agent systems. These systems are composed of both discrete-time and continuous-time subsystems and are governed by switching dynamics. Within the fr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Applications of Control Systems Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,742 Views
20 Pages

2 October 2024

With the development and progress of Internet and data technology, the consensus control of multi-agent systems has been an important topic in nonlinear science. How to effectively achieve the consensus of leader–follower multi-agent systems at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,586 Views
17 Pages

Adaptive Event-Triggered Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems in Sense of Asymptotic Convergence

  • Zhicheng Hou,
  • Zhikang Zhou,
  • Hai Yuan,
  • Weijun Wang and ,
  • Jian Wang and
  • Zheng Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 January 2024

In this paper, the asymptotic consensus control of multi-agent systems with general linear agent dynamics is investigated. A neighbor-based adaptive event-triggering strategy with a dynamic triggering threshold is proposed, which leads to a fully dis...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,920 Views
30 Pages

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced geospatial artificial intelligence; however, geospatial knowledge-base question answering (GeoKBQA) remains underdeveloped. Prior systems have relied on handcrafted rules and have omitted the splitting of da...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue LLM4GIS: Large Language Models for GIS)

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