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A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 26 of 26 outbound references and 3 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.12683.

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This paper cites How to build multi agent ai system, June 2025.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications How to build multi agent ai system, June 2025

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This paper cites Feudal Multi-Agent Hierarchies for Cooperative Reinforcement Learning.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Feudal Multi-Agent Hierarchies for Cooperative Reinforcement Learning

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This paper cites Developing multi-agent systems with a FIPA -compliant agent framework.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Developing multi-agent systems with a FIPA -compliant agent framework

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A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications A multi--agent system for oil field management

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A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Messier, and Sebastian Magierowski

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This paper cites A decentralized hierarchical multi-agent framework for smart grid sustainable energy management.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications A decentralized hierarchical multi-agent framework for smart grid sustainable energy management

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A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Partial global planning: A coordination framework for distributed hypothesis formation.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Partial global planning: A coordination framework for distributed hypothesis formation

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This paper cites Hierarchical Consensus-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Robot Cooperation Tasks.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Hierarchical Consensus-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Robot Cooperation Tasks

Reference 9

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This paper cites Practical drone delivery.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Practical drone delivery

Reference 10

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This paper cites A taxonomy for autonomous LLM --powered multi--agent architectures.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications A taxonomy for autonomous LLM --powered multi--agent architectures

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This paper cites Hanga and Yevgeniya Kovalchuk.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Hanga and Yevgeniya Kovalchuk

Reference 12

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This paper cites A survey of multi-agent organizational paradigms.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications A survey of multi-agent organizational paradigms

Reference 13

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This paper cites A large-scale uav swarm confrontation method based on fuzzy reinforcement learning.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications A large-scale uav swarm confrontation method based on fuzzy reinforcement learning

Reference 14

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This paper cites Malone and Kevin Crowston.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Malone and Kevin Crowston

Reference 15

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This paper cites Moradi, Saleh Razini, and Mahdi Hosseinian.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Moradi, Saleh Razini, and Mahdi Hosseinian

Reference 16

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This paper cites SPADE 3: Supporting the new generation of multi-agent systems.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications SPADE 3: Supporting the new generation of multi-agent systems

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This paper cites Computational trust and reputation models for open multi-agent systems: a review.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Computational trust and reputation models for open multi-agent systems: a review

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This paper cites Hierarchical multi-agent reinforcement learning for repair crews dispatch control towards multi-energy microgrid resilience.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Hierarchical multi-agent reinforcement learning for repair crews dispatch control towards multi-energy microgrid resilience

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A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Reynolds

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A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Multi-Agent Coordination across Diverse Applications: A Survey.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Multi-Agent Coordination across Diverse Applications: A Survey

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A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications ROMA: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Emergent Roles

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A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Jennings, and David Kinny

Reference 24

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A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Autogen: Enabling next-gen LLM applications via multi-agent conversation, October 2023

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A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications Jennings, and Michael Wooldridge

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When Does Hierarchy Help? Benchmarking Agent Coordination in Event-Driven Industrial Scheduling cites this paper.

When Does Hierarchy Help? Benchmarking Agent Coordination in Event-Driven Industrial Scheduling A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications

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How to Steer Your Multi-Agent System: Human-LLM Collaborative Planning cites this paper.

How to Steer Your Multi-Agent System: Human-LLM Collaborative Planning A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications

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A Systematic Approach to Multi-Agent AI from Advanced Regulatory Control Theory: Safe and Auditable LLM Operator Agents for Process Control cites this paper.

A Systematic Approach to Multi-Agent AI from Advanced Regulatory Control Theory: Safe and Auditable LLM Operator Agents for Process Control A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications

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