AN EULERIAN APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF KRAUSE'S CONSENSUS MODELS

被引:72
作者
Canuto, C. [1 ]
Fagnani, F. [1 ]
Tilli, P. [1 ]
机构
[1] Politecn Torino, Dipartimento Matemat, I-10129 Turin, Italy
关键词
multiagent systems; bounded confidence; Krause's model; Lyapunov stability; push-forward; Eulerian approach; MOBILE AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; OPINION DYNAMICS;
D O I
10.1137/100793177
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
In this paper we analyze a class of multiagent consensus dynamical systems inspired by Krause's original model. As in Krause's model, the basic assumption is the so-called bounded confidence: two agents can influence each other only when their state values are below a given distance threshold R. We study the system under an Eulerian point of view considering (possibly continuous) probability distributions of agents, and we present original convergence results. The limit distribution is always necessarily a convex combination of delta functions at least R far apart from each other: in other terms these models are locally aggregating. The Eulerian perspective provides the natural framework for designing a numerical algorithm, by which we obtain several simulations in 1 and 2 dimensions.
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页码:243 / 265
页数:23
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