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Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation

Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation is a research topic within Artificial Intelligence. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1955. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on methods and techniques for agent-based modeling, encompassing topics such as multi-agent systems, argumentation frameworks, software engineering, simulation, negotiation, artificial intelligence, dialectical argumentation, formal methods, and social simulation.

  • Agent-Based Modeling
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Argumentation Frameworks
  • Software Engineering
  • Simulation
  • Negotiation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Dialectical Argumentation
  • Formal Methods
  • Social Simulation
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1955
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation

Which countries lead Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (671 and 395 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 671 works
  2. 2 China 395 works
  3. 3 Germany 200 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 188 works
  5. 5 Italy 175 works
  6. 6 India 161 works
  7. 7 France 143 works
  8. 8 Japan 103 works
  9. 9 Spain 86 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 85 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 30.4%China: 17.9%Germany: 9.1%United Kingdom: 8.5%6 others listed: 34.1%30%largest
United States671 · 30.4%China395 · 17.9%Germany200 · 9.1%United Kingdom188 · 8.5%6 others listed751 · 34.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation research, followed by Optima Neuroscience (United States) and American Rock Mechanics Association.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 44 works
  2. 2 Optima Neuroscience (United States)United States 27 works
  3. 3 American Rock Mechanics AssociationUnited States 22 works
  4. 4 TU WienAustria 21 works
  5. 5 University of CalabriaItaly 21 works
  6. 6 Salesian UniversityMexico 20 works
  7. 7 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 19 works
  8. 8 University of BolognaItaly 19 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 15 works
  10. 10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation include Li Fei-Fei, David Alan Bennett and Jürgen Schmidhuber.

  1. 1 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k citations
  2. 2 David Alan Bennett United States 190k citations
  3. 3 Jürgen Schmidhuber Switzerland 188k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation?

The most cited paper in Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation is "Cognitive radio: making software radios more personal" (Joseph Mitola, Gerald Q. Maguire, 1999), with 9,191 citations. Next come "Intelligent agents: theory and practice" (6,753) and "The vision of autonomic computing" (6,542).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cognitive radio: making software radios more personal Joseph Mitola, Gerald Q. Maguire · IEEE Personal Communications 1999 9,191
2 Intelligent agents: theory and practice Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings · The Knowledge Engineering Review Open access Jun 1995 6,753
3 The vision of autonomic computing Jeffrey O. Kephart, David M. Chess · Computer 2003 6,542
4 On the acceptability of arguments and its fundamental role in nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming and n-person games Phan Minh Dũng · Artificial Intelligence Open access Sep 1995 4,320
5 Behavior-based formation control for multirobot teams Tucker R. Balch, Ronald C. Arkin · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 1998 3,120
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation research done?

The largest centres of Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Tokyo (Japan) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Alachua, Rende and Alexandria.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 106 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 53 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 46 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 40 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 39 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 30 works
  7. 7 AmsterdamNetherlands 28 works
  8. 8 AlachuaUnited States 27 works
  9. 9 SingaporeSingapore 27 works
  10. 10 ViennaAustria 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AlachuaUS · 27.3 works698×
  2. RendeIT · 21.1 works33×
  3. AlexandriaUS · 22.7 works30×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Amsterdam, University of Calabria and University of Bologna score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 13.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Carnegie Mellon Univ…University of Amster…University of BolognaUniversity of Calabria
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of AmsterdamNetherlands 75.915.7%11.6×19 -15.8%
2University of CalabriaItaly 70.410.0%39.6×21 -11.8%
3University of BolognaItaly 68.910.7%8.2×19 +18.8%
4Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 67.521.6%11.3×13 -53.0%
5Tsinghua UniversityChina 65.526.2%2.4×15 +281.8%
6TU WienAustria 60.32.6%25.4×21 -30.3%
7Salesian UniversityMexico 60.18.6%1585.4×20 -
8Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 58.77.0%7.0×14 +4.0%
9Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 58.529.0%4.7×9 -5.6%
10Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 57.26.4%5.0×14 +7.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation, country by country

Is Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation9.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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