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
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