Group consensus of multi-agent systems with directed information exchange

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 334-348

  Yu, Junyan ^a   Wang, Long ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

consensus protocols; directed graphs; group consensus; multi agent systems; multiple groups

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; CONSENSUS PROTOCOLS; CONSISTENT VALUES; CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS; DIRECTED GRAPHS; DIRECTED INFORMATION; DYNAMIC AGENTS; GROUP CONSENSUS; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MATRIX THEORY; MULTIPLE-GROUP; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; SUB-NETWORK; SUBNETWORKS; TASK DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL RESULT;

GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863178561     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2010.496056     Document Type: Article

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