• DocumentCode
    843324
  • Title

    Convergence and asymptotic agreement in distributed decision problems

  • Author

    Tsitsiklis, John N. ; Athans, Michael

  • Author_Institution
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (aka MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1984
  • fDate
    1/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    42
  • Lastpage
    50
  • Abstract
    We consider a distributed team decision problem in which different agents obtain from the environment different stochastic measurements, possibly at different random times, related to the same uncertain random vector. Each agent has the same objective function and prior probability distribution. We assume that each agent can compute an optimal tentative decision based upon his own observation and that these tentative decisions are communicated and received, possibly at random times, by a subset of other agents. Conditions for asymptotic convergence of each agent´s decison sequence and asymptotic agreement of all agents´ decisions are derived.
  • Keywords
    Distributed decision-making; Convergence; Cost function; Decision making; Game theory; History; Large-scale systems; Probability distribution; Random variables; Stochastic processes; Terminology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9286
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAC.1984.1103385
  • Filename
    1103385