Multi-agent Systems

Multi-Agent Systems is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence that studies computational systems composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents, distinguished from other AI paradigms by its focus on decentralized decision-making, autonomy, and emergent collective behavior.

17.3K

Publications

Citations

28.7K

Authors

4.4K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Artificial Intelligence

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Ad Hoc TeamworkAgent CommunicationConsensusCoordinationDistributed Problem SolvingGame-theoretic Multi-agent SystemsMulti-agent Decision MakingMulti-agent LearningMulti-agent OptimizationMulti-agent Planning

Publications

17.3K

Coordination of groups of mobile autonomous agents using nearest neighbor rules

Ali Jadbabaie, Jie Lin, A. Stephen Morse · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2003 · 8.4K citations · Full text

Computing, Autonomous Systems, Computer Science +17

Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem

Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 1997 · 8K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +16

Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model

Craig W. Reynolds · 1987 · 7.8K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Zoology +17

Intelligent agents: theory and practice

Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings · The Knowledge Engineering Review · 1995 · 6.6K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence +10

Consensus seeking in multiagent systems under dynamically changing interaction topologies

Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2005 · 6.5K citations

Computing, Autonomous Systems, Complex Systems +14

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Authors

28.7K

LW
Long Wang
Peking University, China
100 publications · 12.5K citations
54
h-index
NR
Nicholas R. Jennings
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
95 publications · 18.1K citations
50
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GC
Guanrong Chen
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
74 publications · 16.2K citations
48
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GW
Guanghui Wen
Southeast University, China
77 publications · 7.3K citations
45
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WY
Wenwu Yu
Southeast University, China
61 publications · 11.9K citations
45
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Institutions

4.4K

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Venues

Automatica
330 publications · 48.9K citations
115
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IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
321 publications · 74.4K citations
113
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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
289 publications · 26.4K citations
86
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IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems
200 publications · 13.9K citations
69
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arXiv (Cornell University)
Repository · 359 publications · 21K citations
67
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