Call for Papers Special Issue on Security and Safety in Decision-Making and Control of Multi-Agent SystemsOACSCD

Background With the increasing deployment of multi-agent systems(MASs) in diverse domains such as autonomous vehicles, smart grids, and intelligent transportation, and swarm robotics, the security and safety of MASs has become a pressing and critical challenge. The distributed decision-making and cooperative control of MASs depend heavily on communication networks, rendering them particularly vulnerable to communication failures, adversarial attacks, model uncertainties, and component-level faults. As MASs grow in complexity and interconnectivity, malicious entities can exploit these vulnerabilities to manipulate local decision processes, disrupt information exchange, or induce unsafe collective behaviors. On the other hand, recent advances in artificial intelligence, distributed optimization, and fault-tolerant control have created promising opportunities to design secure and safe MAS frameworks capable of reliable operation under adverse conditions. Addressing the security and safety concerns in MASs requires novel theoretical foundations and robust, resilient algorithms tailored to the unique characteristics of MASs. Research at this intersection is of profound academic, technological, and societal importance.