OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Tackling school segregation with transportation network interventions: an agent-based modelling approach	219
A framework for trust-related knowledge transfer in human–robot interaction	52
Optimal matchings with one-sided preferences: fixed and cost-based quotas	38
Enabling imitation-based cooperation in dynamic social networks	35
Accountability in multi-agent organizations: from conceptual design to agent programming	32
Guest editorial: special issue on fair division	30
On-line estimators for ad-hoc task execution: learning types and parameters of teammates for effective teamwork	26
Approximating voting rules from truncated ballots	25
A formal testing method for multi-agent systems using colored Petri nets	21
Large-scale agent-based simulations of online social networks	18
Parameterized complexity of multiwinner determination: more effort towards fixed-parameter tractability	18
Online Markov decision processes with non-oblivious strategic adversary	16
Diffusion auction design with transaction costs	15
Information elicitation mechanisms for Bayesian auctions	13
Changing criteria weights to achieve fair VIKOR ranking: a postprocessing reranking approach	13
Fairness criteria for allocating indivisible chores: connections and efficiencies	12
Solving multi-agent games on networks	12
Safe Pareto improvements for delegated game playing	12
Warmth and competence in human-agent cooperation	12
Adaptation Procedure in misinformation games	12
Deploying vaccine distribution sites for improved accessibility and equity to support pandemic response	11
A normative approach for resilient multiagent systems	11
An introduction to computational argumentation research from a human argumentation perspective	10
Exploring the influence of a user-specific explainable virtual advisor on health behaviour change intentions	10
A survey of multi-agent deep reinforcement learning with communication	10

On fair and efficient solutions for budget apportionment	10
The complexity of verifying popularity and strict popularity in altruistic hedonic games	9
Multivariate algorithmics for eliminating envy by donating goods	9
One-sided matching markets with endowments: equilibria and algorithms	9
Relationship design for socially-aware behavior in static games	8
Accelerating deep reinforcement learning via knowledge-guided policy network	7
Symbolic knowledge injection meets intelligent agents: QoS metrics and experiments	7
Equitability and welfare maximization for allocating indivisible items	6
Fast approximate bi-objective Pareto sets with quality bounds	6
RGS$$^\oplus $$: RDF graph synchronization for collaborative robotics	6
Privacy leakage of search-based multi-agent planning algorithms	6
Towards interactive explanation-based nutrition virtual coaching systems	5
Theoretical properties of the MiCRO negotiation strategy	5
The Cost and Complexity of Minimizing Envy in House Allocation	5
Scalar reward is not enough: a response to Silver, Singh, Precup and Sutton (2021)	5
Using psychological characteristics of situations for social situation comprehension in support agents	5
Gini index based initial coin offering mechanism	4
Effect of asynchronous execution and imperfect communication on max-sum belief propagation	4
The complexity of election problems with group-separable preferences	4
Mandrake: multiagent systems as a basis for programming fault-tolerant decentralized applications	4
Quantifying the effects of environment and population diversity in multi-agent reinforcement learning	4
Unravelling multi-agent ranked delegations	4
A game-theoretic approach for hierarchical epidemic control	4
A refined complexity analysis of fair districting over graphs	4
How to turn an MAS into a graphical causal model	4
Differentially private multi-agent constraint optimization	4
Efficiently reconfiguring a connected swarm of labeled robots	3
Coordinating monetary contributions in participatory budgeting	3
Computing balanced solutions for large international kidney exchange schemes	3
Combining quantitative and qualitative reasoning in concurrent multi-player games	3
Ability and knowledge: from epistemic transition systems to labelled stit models	3
Diversity-seeking jump games in networks	3
Multi-UAV planning for cooperative wildfire coverage and tracking with quality-of-service guarantees	3
Aggregating bipolar opinions through bipolar assumption-based argumentation	3
Redividing the cake	3
La VIDA: towards a motivated goal reasoning agent	3
Manipulation-resistant false-name-proof facility location mechanisms for complex graphs	3
Algorithms for partially robust team formation	3
The distortion of threshold approval matching	3
Correction: Warmth and competence in human-agent cooperation	3
GenSynthPop: generating a spatially explicit synthetic population of individuals and households from aggregated data	3
Graphical house allocation with identical valuations	2
Reflexive anticipatory reasoning by BDI agents	2
Representing and reasoning about auctions	2
Investigating the impact of direct punishment on the emergence of cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement learning systems	2
Parameterized complexity of candidate nomination for elections based on positional scoring rules	2
Optimizing node selection in search based multi-agent path finding	2
Multi-stage generalized deferred acceptance mechanism: Strategyproof mechanism for handling general hereditary constraints	2
Correction: Epistemic selection of costly alternatives: the case of participatory budgeting	2
Teacher-apprentices RL (TARL): leveraging complex policy distribution through generative adversarial hypernetwork in reinforcement learning	2

Budget feasible mechanisms for facility location games with strategic facilities	2
Team-wise effective communication in multi-agent reinforcement learning	2
Learning structured communication for multi-agent reinforcement learning	2
Decentralized multi-agent path finding framework and strategies based on automated negotiation	2
Model-free reinforcement learning for motion planning of autonomous agents with complex tasks in partially observable environments	2
Fair allocation of indivisible goods and chores	2
Connected coordinated motion planning with bounded stretch	2
Assimilating human feedback from autonomous vehicle interaction in reinforcement learning models	2
Towards combining commonsense reasoning and knowledge acquisition to guide deep learning	2
Equilibria in schelling games: computational hardness and robustness	2
Epistemic selection of costly alternatives: the case of participatory budgeting	2
Topological influence and locality in swap schelling games	2
Logic-based cognitive planning for conversational agents	2
Resolving social dilemmas with minimal reward transfer	1
Towards explainable interactive multiobjective optimization: R-XIMO	1
Uniformly constrained reinforcement learning	1
Fair allocation of conflicting items	1
A framework for the comparison of agent-based models	1
An agent-based persuasion model using emotion-driven concession and multi-objective optimization	1
Generating and choosing organisations for multi-agent systems	1
Towards an axiomatic approach to truth discovery	1
Hardness of candidate nomination	1
Input addition and deletion in reinforcement: towards protean learning	1
On preferences and reward policies over rankings	1
Open-ended coordination for multi-agent systems using modular open policies	1
Price of anarchy of traffic assignment with exponential cost functions	1
“Provably fair” algorithms may perpetuate racial and gender bias: a study of salary dispute resolution	1
Using soft maximin for risk averse multi-objective decision-making	1
Scaling multi-agent reinforcement learning to full 11 versus 11 simulated robotic football	1
A survey of research on several problems in the RoboCup3D simulation environment	1
Actor-critic multi-objective reinforcement learning for non-linear utility functions	1
A Bayesian optimal social law synthesizing mechanism for strategical agents	1
Non-chaotic limit sets in multi-agent learning	1
Full communication memory networks for team-level cooperation learning	1
Preference-based multi-objective multi-agent path finding	1
Balancing fairness and efficiency in traffic routing via interpolated traffic assignment	1
Privacy preserving planning in multi-agent stochastic environments	1
Beyond the echo chamber: modelling open-mindedness in citizens’ assemblies	1
Behavioral QLTL	1
Monte Carlo tree search algorithms for risk-aware and multi-objective reinforcement learning	1
Modeling and reinforcement learning in partially observable many-agent systems	1
Toward fast belief propagation for distributed constraint optimization problems via heuristic search	1
The parameterized complexity of manipulating Top Trading Cycles	1
Budget-feasible egalitarian allocation of conflicting jobs	1
Entropy based blending of policies for multi-agent coexistence	1
Classifying ambiguous identities in hidden-role Stochastic games with multi-agent reinforcement learning	1
Low variance trust region optimization with independent actors and sequential updates in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning	1
Strategyproof facility location mechanisms on discrete trees	1
Explaining BDI agent behaviour through dialogue	1
Egalitarian judgment aggregation	1
Augmenting the action space with conventions to improve multi-agent cooperation in Hanabi	1
Reducing disclosed dependencies in privacy preserving planning	1
Emergence of norms in interactions with complex rewards	1
Navigating in a space of game views	1