A probabilistic local majority polling game on weighted directed graphs with an application to the distributed agreement problem

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Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 266-273

  Nakata, Toshio ^a   Imahayashi, Hiroshi ^b   Yamashita, Masafumi ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed agreement; Graph theory; Local majority polling; Markov chains; Monopolies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034216177     PISSN: 00283045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0037(200007)35:4<266::AID-NET5>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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