Consensus Over Martingale Graph Processes

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General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory
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Stochastic Process
Social Networks
Random Networks
Graph Theory
Controls and Control Theory
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Fazeli, Arastoo
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In this paper, we consider a consensus seeking process based on repeated averaging in a randomly changing network. The underlying graph of such a network at each time is generated by a martingale random process. We prove that consensus is reached almost surely if and only if the expected graph of the network contains a directed spanning tree. We then provide an example of a consensus seeking process based on local averaging of opinions in a dynamic model of social network formation which is a martingale. At each time step, individual agents randomly choose some other agents to interact with according to some arbitrary probabilities. The interaction is one-sided and results in the agent averaging her opinion with those of her randomly chosen neighbors based on the weights she assigns to them. Once an agent chooses a neighbor, the weights are updated in such a way that the expected values of the weights are preserved. We show that agents reach consensus in this random dynamical network almost surely. Finally, we demonstrate that a Polya Urn process is a martingale process, and our prior results in [1] is a special case of the model proposed in this paper.

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2012-06-01
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Fazeli, A. & Jadbabaie, A. (2012). Consensus over martingale graph processes. American Control Conference (ACC), 2012, pp.845-850. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6315532&isnumber=6314593 © 2012 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
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