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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Tackling school segregation with transportation network interventions: an agent-based modelling approach	163
Optimal matchings with one-sided preferences: fixed and cost-based quotas	41
A framework for trust-related knowledge transfer in human–robot interaction	29
Concurrent local negotiations with a global utility function: a greedy approach	28
Enabling imitation-based cooperation in dynamic social networks	27
Accountability in multi-agent organizations: from conceptual design to agent programming	26
Guest editorial: special issue on fair division	24
A formal testing method for multi-agent systems using colored Petri nets	23
Large-scale agent-based simulations of online social networks	18
Online Markov decision processes with non-oblivious strategic adversary	18
On-line estimators for ad-hoc task execution: learning types and parameters of teammates for effective teamwork	16
Approximating voting rules from truncated ballots	15
Parameterized complexity of multiwinner determination: more effort towards fixed-parameter tractability	14
Towards completing the puzzle: complexity of control by replacing, adding, and deleting candidates or voters	13
Adaptation Procedure in misinformation games	12
Diffusion auction design with transaction costs	12
Changing criteria weights to achieve fair VIKOR ranking: a postprocessing reranking approach	11
Fairness criteria for allocating indivisible chores: connections and efficiencies	10
Safe Pareto improvements for delegated game playing	10
A normative approach for resilient multiagent systems	10
Trust repair in human-agent teams: the effectiveness of explanations and expressing regret	10
Warmth and competence in human-agent cooperation	10
Solving multi-agent games on networks	10
Deploying vaccine distribution sites for improved accessibility and equity to support pandemic response	9
A contract-based incentive mechanism for distributed meeting scheduling: Can agents who value privacy tell the truth?	9

Modelling and verification of reconfigurable multi-agent systems	9
An introduction to computational argumentation research from a human argumentation perspective	8
A survey of multi-agent deep reinforcement learning with communication	8
Exploring the influence of a user-specific explainable virtual advisor on health behaviour change intentions	8
On fair and efficient solutions for budget apportionment	8
Multivariate algorithmics for eliminating envy by donating goods	7
Exploration in policy optimization through multiple paths	7
Relationship design for socially-aware behavior in static games	7
The complexity of verifying popularity and strict popularity in altruistic hedonic games	7
Accelerating deep reinforcement learning via knowledge-guided policy network	7
Equitability and welfare maximization for allocating indivisible items	6
Symbolic knowledge injection meets intelligent agents: QoS metrics and experiments	6
A logical model for the ontology alignment repair game	6
One-sided matching markets with endowments: equilibria and algorithms	6
Privacy leakage of search-based multi-agent planning algorithms	5
RGS$$^\oplus $$: RDF graph synchronization for collaborative robotics	5
Using psychological characteristics of situations for social situation comprehension in support agents	5
An asymptotically optimal VCG redistribution mechanism for the public project problem	5
Gini index based initial coin offering mechanism	4
On the dominant set selection problem and its application to value alignment	4
Theoretical properties of the MiCRO negotiation strategy	4
Fast approximate bi-objective Pareto sets with quality bounds	4
Special issue on Current trends in research on software agents and agent-based software systems	4
Towards interactive explanation-based nutrition virtual coaching systems	4
Scalar reward is not enough: a response to Silver, Singh, Precup and Sutton (2021)	3
Unravelling multi-agent ranked delegations	3
Aggregating bipolar opinions through bipolar assumption-based argumentation	3
The complexity of election problems with group-separable preferences	3
Quantifying the effects of environment and population diversity in multi-agent reinforcement learning	3
Effect of asynchronous execution and imperfect communication on max-sum belief propagation	3
How to turn an MAS into a graphical causal model	3
Differentially private multi-agent constraint optimization	3
A refined complexity analysis of fair districting over graphs	3
A game-theoretic approach for hierarchical epidemic control	3
Mandrake: multiagent systems as a basis for programming fault-tolerant decentralized applications	3
Multi-UAV planning for cooperative wildfire coverage and tracking with quality-of-service guarantees	3
Decentralized multi-agent path finding framework and strategies based on automated negotiation	2
Investigating the impact of direct punishment on the emergence of cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement learning systems	2
Assimilating human feedback from autonomous vehicle interaction in reinforcement learning models	2
Fair cake-cutting algorithms with real land-value data	2
Redividing the cake	2
Team-wise effective communication in multi-agent reinforcement learning	2
Computing balanced solutions for large international kidney exchange schemes	2
Representing and reasoning about auctions	2
Towards combining commonsense reasoning and knowledge acquisition to guide deep learning	2
Connected coordinated motion planning with bounded stretch	2
Recent advances in leveraging human guidance for sequential decision-making tasks	2
Budget feasible mechanisms for facility location games with strategic facilities	2
Correction: Warmth and competence in human-agent cooperation	2
Combining quantitative and qualitative reasoning in concurrent multi-player games	2

Algorithms for partially robust team formation	2
GenSynthPop: generating a spatially explicit synthetic population of individuals and households from aggregated data	2
Learning structured communication for multi-agent reinforcement learning	2
Ability and knowledge: from epistemic transition systems to labelled stit models	2
Teacher-apprentices RL (TARL): leveraging complex policy distribution through generative adversarial hypernetwork in reinforcement learning	2
Reflexive anticipatory reasoning by BDI agents	2
La VIDA: towards a motivated goal reasoning agent	2
Efficiently reconfiguring a connected swarm of labeled robots	2
Manipulation-resistant false-name-proof facility location mechanisms for complex graphs	2
Equilibria in schelling games: computational hardness and robustness	2
Logic-based cognitive planning for conversational agents	1
Fair allocation of indivisible goods and chores	1
Generating and choosing organisations for multi-agent systems	1
Egalitarian judgment aggregation	1
On coalitional manipulation for multiwinner elections: shortlisting	1
Actor-critic multi-objective reinforcement learning for non-linear utility functions	1
Budget-feasible egalitarian allocation of conflicting jobs	1
Full communication memory networks for team-level cooperation learning	1
Automatic calibration of dynamic and heterogeneous parameters in agent-based models	1
On preferences and reward policies over rankings	1
Balancing fairness and efficiency in traffic routing via interpolated traffic assignment	1
Entropy based blending of policies for multi-agent coexistence	1
Goal-driven active learning	1
Correction: Epistemic selection of costly alternatives: the case of participatory budgeting	1
Model-free reinforcement learning for motion planning of autonomous agents with complex tasks in partially observable environments	1
Graphical house allocation with identical valuations	1
Augmenting the action space with conventions to improve multi-agent cooperation in Hanabi	1
The parameterized complexity of manipulating Top Trading Cycles	1
An agent-based persuasion model using emotion-driven concession and multi-objective optimization	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
Using soft maximin for risk averse multi-objective decision-making	1
Beyond the echo chamber: modelling open-mindedness in citizens’ assemblies	1
Testing stability properties in graphical hedonic games	1
Explaining BDI agent behaviour through dialogue	1
Non-chaotic limit sets in multi-agent learning	1
Input addition and deletion in reinforcement: towards protean learning	1
Topological influence and locality in swap schelling games	1
Parameterized complexity of candidate nomination for elections based on positional scoring rules	1
Epistemic selection of costly alternatives: the case of participatory budgeting	1
A framework for the comparison of agent-based models	1
A Bayesian optimal social law synthesizing mechanism for strategical agents	1
Modeling and reinforcement learning in partially observable many-agent systems	1
Reducing disclosed dependencies in privacy preserving planning	1
Scaling multi-agent reinforcement learning to full 11 versus 11 simulated robotic football	1
Hardness of candidate nomination	1
Fair allocation of conflicting items	1
Analysing factorizations of action-value networks for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning	1
Preface to the Special Issue on engineering reliable multi-agent systems	1
Preference-based multi-objective multi-agent path finding	1
Uniformly constrained reinforcement learning	1
Privacy preserving planning in multi-agent stochastic environments	1