@techreport{6d7bf523b5114a929456e463fb1cca52,
title = "Multi-Agent Path Finding with Deadlines: Preliminary Results",
abstract = "We formalize the problem of multi-agent path finding with deadlines (MAPF-DL). The objective is to maximize the number of agents that can reach their given goal vertices from their given start vertices within a given deadline, without colliding with each other. We first show that the MAPF-DL problem is NP-hard to solve optimally. We then present an optimal MAPF-DL algorithm based on a reduction of the MAPF-DL problem to a flow problem and a subsequent compact integer linear programming formulation of the resulting reduced abstracted multi-commodity flow network.",
keywords = "Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Multiagent Systems",
author = "Hang Ma and Glenn Wagner and Ariel Felner and Jiaoyang Li and {Satish Kumar}, {T. K.} and Sven Koenig",
year = "2018",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1805.04961",
language = "American English",
series = "arXiv preprint",
type = "WorkingPaper",
}