Continuous-time average-preserving opinion dynamics with opinion-dependent communications

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 5214-5240

  Blondel, Vincent D ^a,b   Hendrickx, Julien M ^a,b   Tsitsiklis, John N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus; Multiagent systems; Opinion dynamics

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIORS; CONSENSUS; CONTINUOUS TIME; CONTINUUM MODEL; LOWER BOUNDS; OPINION DYNAMICS; REAL VALUES; STABLE EQUILIBRIUM; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC SHIP EQUIPMENT; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79251508650     PISSN: 03630129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090766188     Document Type: Article

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