Stability of Agreement in State-dependent Interaction Environments

We study stochastic stability for a class of agreement dynamics and define two forms of agreement which we call stochastic agreement and stochastic absolute agreement. We identify conditions for a broad class of random, possibly state-dependent agreement processes to achieve stochastic agreement. We take the approach of applying Lyapunov drift criteria to study the behaviour of such processes. We generalize some results in the literature to the noisy and state-dependent case.

Department dc:contributor.department

Mathematics and Statistics

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Condello, Alexander

Advisor dc:contributor.supervisor

• Yüksel, Serdar

• Mathematics
• Consensus
• Agreement

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8096

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:queensu.scholaris.ca:1974/8096