Distributed networks comprising decision-making units of variable competence are used to
perform a sequence of tasks. Estimation of the local competences based solely on …

Wireless sensor networks are a cost-effective means of data collection, especially in areas
which may not have significant infrastructure. There are significant challenges associated …

We study bounded confidence opinion dynamics on graphs. At each iteration, agents
average their opinions with those of their neighbors in the graph who have similar opinions …

Consider a community of agents, all performing a predefined task, but with different abilities.
Each agent may be interested in knowing how well it performs in comparison with her peers …

Collaborative autonomous systems may rely on wireless communications in dynamic
settings. Fundamental to these systems is collaborative decision making, gathering …

Understanding the conditions under which a multiagent system reaches a consensus has
wide applicability in distributed decision-making environments. The iterative exchange of …

Previous work has shown that communication between agents with some preference
towards adopting the majority opinion can enhance the quality of error-prone individual …

Multi-option collective decision making is an emergent topic of study within the field of
swarm intelligence. Many strategies have been proposed to enable decentralized and …

Distributed averaging represents a central task in many applications related to sensor
networks, ad-hoc networks, and embedded wireless systems. These systems are typically …

In this paper, we propose a method to distributively monitor a dynamic mobile network. For
this purpose, we take advantage of the consensus theory to provide each node with a …