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This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on intelligent complex systems. Narrative review articles are also welcomed for consideration in our sister journal Scientific Reviews. For further information, please view the ‘Participating Journals’ below.
Recent advances in AI and data-driven methods provide new opportunities for intelligent coordination and decision-making in complex systems. In large-scale cyber-physical systems, decision-making is not centralised but distributed across interacting autonomous and/or semi-autonomous agents that must coordinate their actions while operating under uncertainty, limited information and dynamic environments.
This Collection invites research using physical systems to validate multi-agent coordination and intelligent decision-making in complex systems.