A General Framework for Distributed Vote Aggregation
Social and Information Networks
2012-12-12 v1
Abstract
We present a general model for opinion dynamics in a social network together with several possibilities for object selections at times when the agents are communicating. We study the limiting behavior of such a dynamics and show that this dynamics almost surely converges. We consider some special implications of the convergence result for gossip and top- selective gossip models. In particular, we provide an answer to the open problem of the convergence property of the top- selective gossip model, and show that the convergence holds in a much more general setting. Moreover, we propose an extension of the gossip and top- selective gossip models and provide some results for their limiting behavior.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1212.2607,
title = {A General Framework for Distributed Vote Aggregation},
author = {Behrouz Touri and Farzad Farnoud and Angelia Neidic and Olgica Milenkovic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.2607},
year = {2012}
}