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  • Article
  • Open Access
1,374 Views
73 Pages

PAiNT: Perspective-Aware AI Identity and Narrative Toolkit for Generating Labeled Digital Footprints

  • Jisung Shin,
  • Daniel Platnick,
  • Tanayjyot Singh Chawla,
  • Li Zhang and ,
  • Amardeep Singh,
  • Kazi Rahman,
  • Arnav Chandna,
  • Marjan Alirezaie and
  • Hossein Rahnama
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

2 July 2026

Modeling a user’s evolving goals, values, and affect over time is central to perspective-aware AI, yet progress is bottlenecked by the lack of longitudinal data with ground-truth labels for the latent identity state. We introduce PAiNT (Perspec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,446 Views
17 Pages

Adaptive Clustering through Multi-Agent Technology: Development and Perspectives

  • Sergey Grachev,
  • Petr Skobelev,
  • Igor Mayorov and
  • Elena Simonova

27 September 2020

The paper is devoted to an overview of multi-agent principles, methods, and technologies intended to adaptive real-time data clustering. The proposed methods provide new principles of self-organization of records and clusters, represented by software...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
963 Views
22 Pages

Pursuit–Evasion Strategies in Multi-Agent Robotic Systems: Analytical, Learning-Based, and Evolutionary Perspectives

  • Alejandro Moreno-Martinez,
  • Victor Landassuri-Moreno,
  • Asdrúbal López-Chau,
  • Saul Lazcano-Salas and
  • Heriberto Casarrubias-Vargas

12 August 2026

In studies of intelligent agents, the pursuit–evasion problem, commonly related to the predator–prey paradigm, has been used as a reference setting for examining decision-making, coordination, and adaptation in multi-agent systems. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Section AI in Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,434 Views
16 Pages

20 September 2022

This article aims to explore the relationship between social innovation and opportunities for innovation in public services, focusing on a range of initiatives intended to improve services and infrastructure for pedestrians in the city of São...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
420 Views
48 Pages

15 September 2026

This paper reports the Sophimatic Multi-Agent System (MAS), the first integrated operational implementation of the six-phase Sophimatics framework: a three-tier containerised prototype (React/FastAPI/MySQL, ~25,000 lines of code) with an agent catalo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems and Secure Networks for Future Internet: AI, IoT, Blockchain and Beyond)
  • Review
  • Open Access
338 Views
50 Pages

14 October 2026

Decentralized task allocation among multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a critical NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem for enabling autonomous swarms to operate without central supervision. Multi-UAV research has advanced distributed a...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence in Drones (AID))
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,511 Views
18 Pages

11 November 2023

In this paper, we consider the cooperative decision-making problem for multi-target tracking in multi-agent systems using multi-agent deep reinforcement learning algorithms. Multi-agent multi-target pursuit has faced new challenges in practical appli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Deep Learning Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,701 Views
16 Pages

14 October 2021

In many existing multi-agent reinforcement learning tasks, each agent observes all the other agents from its own perspective. In addition, the training process is centralized, namely the critic of each agent can access the policies of all the agents....

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,144 Views
24 Pages

20 August 2024

Construction engineering and management (CEM) involves multiple stakeholders, complex interest relationships, and conflicts. All stakeholders must comprehensively consider the interests relating to a project to make decisions. Appropriate multi-agent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,767 Views
22 Pages

14 July 2022

To study the interactive impact and multi-agent intervention effect caused by multiple public opinion events, a SI3R interactive public opinion communication model is proposed in this paper. Based on interactive public opinion evolution and influence...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,533 Views
17 Pages

4 April 2020

Mobile application innovation diffusion can be used to enhance the reputation and competitiveness of Internet enterprises. However, few works have explored the process of mobile application innovation diffusion from the individual perspective. Theref...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,475 Views
27 Pages

A Review of Support Tools for User-Centric Electric Vehicle Charging Management Based on Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent System Approaches

  • Carlos Veiga,
  • João Soares,
  • Carlos Ramos,
  • Juan Corchado and ,
  • Ronaldo Mello,
  • Rubipiara Fernandes and
  • Carina Dorneles
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 November 2025

Due to the environmental impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from traditional combustion vehicles, governments worldwide are encouraging the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). However, as EV use increases, user-related charging challenges have be...

(This article belongs to the Collection "Electric Vehicles" Section: Review Papers)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,979 Views
22 Pages

19 October 2022

The event-triggered consensus of multi-agent systems received extensive attention in academia and industry perspectives since it ensures all agents eventually converge to a stable state while reducing the utilization of network communication resource...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamical System and Stochastic Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,681 Views
23 Pages

31 March 2022

With the rapid development of a new generation of information technology and data systems, there are more and more modern logistics park projects appearing in China. However, in the process of the construction and operation of a logistics park projec...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,265 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
2 Citations
1,124 Views
24 Pages

1 April 2026

In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), communication can address the challenges of partial observability and environmental non-stationarity by conveying environmental features and decision intents, respectively. However, existing m...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,200 Views
22 Pages

Study on Master Slave Interaction Model Based on Stackelberg Game in Distributed Environment

  • Jie Zhang,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Shaohua Yue,
  • Xiaoqiang Yao and ,
  • Yafei Song and
  • Jiayi Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 February 2020

In view of the problems such as low efficiency, difficulty in resolving local conflicts and lack of practical application scenarios, existing in the interaction model of multi-agent systems in a distributed environment, a multi-master multi-slave int...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,972 Views
18 Pages

18 February 2020

The increasing number of robots around us creates a demand for connecting these robots in order to achieve goal-driven teamwork in heterogeneous multi-robot systems. In this paper, we focus on robot teamwork specifically in dynamic environments. Whil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Robot Systems: Challenges, Trends and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,454 Views
24 Pages

Formalization and Modeling of Communication within Multi-Agent Systems Based on Transparent Intensional Logic

  • Samuel Novotný,
  • Miroslav Michalko,
  • Ján Perháč,
  • Valerie Novitzká and
  • František Jakab

16 March 2022

Communication is one of the most notable processes in a multi-agent system. For this reason, considerable attention is paid to it—from abstract levels presenting theoretical models describing the basic principles to an implementation level with...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,312 Views
36 Pages

Cognitive Grounding for Perspective Integration in Multi-LLM Systems

  • Lev Sukherman,
  • Yetunde Longe-Folajimi and
  • Marina Konkol

This paper investigates whether structured collaboration between multiple large language models (LLMs), each assigned a distinct cognitive role grounded in psychological theory, produces benefits beyond simple answer aggregation. We propose the Paral...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Modelling (2nd Edition))
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,361 Views
8 Pages

Designing an AI Agent System to Execute Biodesign Debate Process

  • Ya Chuan Chen,
  • Shih-Huan Lin,
  • Ke-Wei Chen and
  • Hsiang-Wei Hu

Early-stage healthcare innovation depends on systematic unmet need discovery, a process constrained by time and multidisciplinary coordination. We developed BioDesign Agent, a multi-agent debate framework built on LangGraph to augment the identify ph...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 7th Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability 2025 (ECBIOS 2025))
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
11,545 Views
37 Pages

11 October 2007

The recent availability of low cost and miniaturized hardware has allowedwireless sensor networks (WSNs) to retrieve audio and video data in real worldapplications, which has fostered the development of wireless multimedia sensor networks(WMSNs). Res...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficiency and Intelligent Signal Processing for Wireless Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
464 Views
19 Pages

Exploration by Multi-Agent Relationship Graph Reconstruction

  • Yaxin Xu,
  • Yinxiang He,
  • Tianyi Liu,
  • Ningzhong Liu and ,
  • Han Sun,
  • Mingjing Pei and
  • Jiaquan Shen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 September 2026

Efficient exploration remains a key challenge in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), where the novelty of a joint situation may arise not only from unfamiliar individual observations but also from previously underrepresented intera...

  • 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...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,272 Views
24 Pages

Agents and Robots for Reliable Engineered Autonomy:A Perspective from the Organisers of AREA 2020

  • Rafael C. Cardoso,
  • Angelo Ferrando,
  • Daniela Briola,
  • Claudio Menghi and
  • Tobias Ahlbrecht

Multi-agent systems, robotics and software engineering are large and active research areas with many applications in academia and industry. The First Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA), organised the first time in 2...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agents and Robots for Reliable Engineered Autonomy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,083 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Agent Variational Approach for Robotics: A Bio-Inspired Perspective

  • Imran Mir,
  • Faiza Gul,
  • Suleman Mir,
  • Laith Abualigah and ,
  • Raed Abu Zitar,
  • Abdelazim G. Hussien,
  • Emad Mahrous Awwad and
  • Mohamed Sharaf
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

This study proposes an adaptable, bio-inspired optimization algorithm for Multi-Agent Space Exploration. The recommended approach combines a parameterized Aquila Optimizer, a bio-inspired technology, with deterministic Multi-Agent Exploration. Stocha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature-Inspired Computer Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,205 Views
20 Pages

Maximizing Local Rewards on Multi-Agent Quantum Games through Gradient-Based Learning Strategies

  • Agustin Silva,
  • Omar Gustavo Zabaleta and
  • Constancio Miguel Arizmendi

26 October 2023

This article delves into the complex world of quantum games in multi-agent settings, proposing a model wherein agents utilize gradient-based strategies to optimize local rewards. A learning model is introduced to focus on the learning efficacy of age...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
324 Views
25 Pages

24 May 2026

Against the backdrop of increasingly stringent natural forest protection and comprehensive logging bans, forest-dependent regions confront structural constraints between ecological conservation and economic development, necessitating the exploration...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
16,646 Views
44 Pages

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has demonstrated significant application potential in addressing cooperative control, policy optimization, and task allocation problems in complex systems. This paper focuses on its applications and developme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Machine Design, Automation and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,690 Views
29 Pages

31 May 2021

Critical to social sustainability and organizations’ growth, at present, is gender equality. Yet, egalitarian principles are difficult to apply in the practice, particularly in private firms. Acknowledging previous calls that research should respond...

(This article belongs to the Collection Social Sustainability in Business from a Gender Perspective)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,125 Views
19 Pages

Background: Digital marketing increasingly functions as a complex adaptive system characterised by non-stationary environments, strategic interaction, and multi-agent competition. Programmatic advertising exemplifies this complexity, where decisions...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Computation and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,508 Views
10 Pages

20 November 2020

Pursuit-evasion games are used to define guidance strategies for multi-agent planning problems. Although optimal strategies exist for deterministic scenarios, in the case when information about the opponent players is imperfect, it is important to ev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimal Control Theory)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,732 Views
17 Pages

9 September 2022

The paper introduces a proposal of an Autonomous Navigation System for Unmanned Surface Vessels. The system architecture is presented with a special emphasis on collision avoidance and maneuver auto-negotiation. For the purpose of maneuver auto-negot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automation, Operation and Maintenance of Control and Communication Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,620 Views
25 Pages

Spatiotemporal Modeling of the Smart City Residents’ Activity with Multi-Agent Systems

  • Robert Olszewski,
  • Piotr Pałka,
  • Agnieszka Turek,
  • Bogna Kietlińska and ,
  • Tadeusz Płatkowski and
  • Marek Borkowski
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 May 2019

The article proposes the concept of modeling that uses multi-agent systems of mutual interactions between city residents as well as interactions between residents and spatial objects. Adopting this perspective means treating residents, as well as bui...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Agent Systems 2019)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,380 Views
29 Pages

22 September 2022

To address the current limitation of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) in tackling urban–rural sustainability issues, this study proposes a Cooperative Human-Agent Service System (CHASS) by leveraging the decentralized communication and coordina...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Technologies for Sustainable Urban and Regional Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,225 Views
18 Pages

MARTINE—A Platform for Real-Time Energy Management in Smart Grids

  • Zita Vale,
  • Pedro Faria,
  • Omid Abrishambaf,
  • Luis Gomes and
  • Tiago Pinto

25 March 2021

This paper presents MARTINE (Multi-Agent based Real-Time INfrastruture for Energy), a simulation, emulation and energy management platform for the study of problems related to buildings and smart grids. Relevant advances related to buildings and smar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Quality of Renewable Energy Source Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,028 Views
41 Pages

23 August 2026

Intelligent agents are emerging as an important system-level paradigm for smart agriculture. This review focuses on modern agricultural intelligent agents driven by large language models and related multimodal foundation models and examines how this...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,001 Views
10 Pages

4 September 2020

The objective of this study is to investigate the structure for learning and the learning outcomes from a paper exercise based on multiagency collaboration, and point to potential benefits for crisis leadership and management in civil organizations....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emergencies and Public Health Crisis Management- Current Perspectives on Risks and Multiagency Collaboration)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,107 Views
9 Pages

14 June 2026

In the ongoing data-rich era, intelligent cognition is playing an increasingly important role in advancing remote sensing applications. However, traditional intelligent methods for remote sensing processing no longer fully meet the growing demands of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,063 Views
41 Pages

AGR4BS: A Generic Multi-Agent Organizational Model for Blockchain Systems

  • Hector Roussille,
  • Önder Gürcan and
  • Fabien Michel

Blockchain is a very attractive technology since it maintains a public, append-only, immutable and ordered log of transactions which guarantees an auditable ledger accessible by anyone. Blockchain systems are inherently interdisciplinary since they c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,108 Views
16 Pages

11 June 2021

Following the current technological development and informational advancement, more and more physical systems have become interconnected and linked via communication networks. The objective of this work is the development of a Coalitional Distributed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber-Physical Systems - from Perception to Action)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,329 Views
19 Pages

24 November 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an umbrella term that encompasses different fields of study, and topics related to these fields are addressed separately or within the scope of AI. Multi-agent systems (MASs) and machine learning (ML) are the core conc...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,185 Views
20 Pages

The promotion of farmers’ green production behavior (GPB) to accelerate agricultural green development and food system transformation is a popular issue worldwide. Based on the representative literature from 2015 to October 2024, this study rev...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
2,047 Views
10 Pages

2 August 2022

In this article, the performance indices on consensus problems for three-layered, multiagent systems are studied from the perspective of algebraic graph theory, where the indices can be used as a measurement of the system performance and refer to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
429 Views
19 Pages

Process Calculus of Epistemic Systems

  • Jinjin Zhang,
  • Kun Zhu,
  • Xiaoxia Zhou and
  • Xia Jing

29 August 2026

In the analysis and design of multi-agent systems, the representation and communication of knowledge is a critical challenge. The traditional methods of the past, such as dynamic epistemic logic, often lack a process algebraic perspective for modelin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,120 Views
30 Pages

A Method for Multi-AUV Cooperative Area Search in Unknown Environment Based on Reinforcement Learning

  • Yueming Li,
  • Mingquan Ma,
  • Jian Cao,
  • Guobin Luo and ,
  • Depeng Wang and
  • Weiqiang Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

As an emerging direction of multi-agent collaborative control technology, multiple autonomous underwater vehicle (multi-AUV) cooperative area search technology has played an important role in civilian fields such as marine resource exploration and de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unmanned Marine Vehicles: Perception, Planning, Control and Swarm)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,952 Views
40 Pages

20 May 2026

Modern power systems are undergoing a structural transformation driven by the rapid integration of renewable energy sources, distributed energy resources, electrification, and increasing operational uncertainty. These developments expose the limitati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative AI Applications for Power Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,071 Views
30 Pages

28 August 2025

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities, yet they face significant limitations in real-world applications. To overcome these boundaries, research areas such as tool learning, model collaboration, agents, and multi-agent...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,426 Views
19 Pages

4 January 2013

The paper analyzes the concepts of uncertainty and surprise as key variables of a socio-ecological system’s behavior in the context of the theory of complexity. Experiences from the past have shown that living with uncertainty is part of our daily li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Humanity’s Future)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,031 Views
15 Pages

In the post-epidemic era, China’s urban communities are at the forefront of implementing the whole chain of accurate epidemic prevention and control. However, the uncertainty of COVID-19, the loopholes in community management and people’s...

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