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Lightweight Distributed Adaptive Algorithm for Voting Procedures by Using Network Average Consensus

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PRIMA 2013: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2013)

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Consensus Seeking (CS) is an important research area in which this work contributes by proposing a new distributed algorithm to solve Voting Procedures (VP) problems in mobile networks with link failures under strong constraints on communication capacity.

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  1. LACSC, ECE Paris School of Engineering, France

    Clement Duhart & Michel Cotsaftis

  2. LITIS, Havre University, France

    Clement Duhart & Cyrille Bertelle

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica,, Università degli Studi di Torino, via Pessinetto 12,, 10149, Torino, Italy

    Guido Boella

  2. Division of Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Edith Elkind

  3. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu  & Martin K. Purvis  & 

  4. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Frank Dignum

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Duhart, C., Cotsaftis, M., Bertelle, C. (2013). Lightweight Distributed Adaptive Algorithm for Voting Procedures by Using Network Average Consensus. In: Boella, G., Elkind, E., Savarimuthu, B.T.R., Dignum, F., Purvis, M.K. (eds) PRIMA 2013: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-44927-7_30

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