Non-Bayesian learning in social networks with time-varying weights

Proceedings of the 30th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4768-4771

  Liu, Qipeng ^a,b   Fang, Aili ^a,b   Wang, Lin ^a,b   Wang, Xiaofan ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Social learning; Social network; Time varying weights

Indexed keywords

BAYES' RULE; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; ERGODICITY; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SOCIAL EVENTS; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TIME-VARYING WEIGHTS; TRANSITION MATRICES; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

EID: 80053091285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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