Structural Results for Decentralized Stochastic Control with a Word-of-Mouth Communication
Optimization and Control
2020-09-24 v5
Abstract
In this paper, we analyze a network of agents that communicate through the ``word of mouth," in which, every agent communicates only with its neighbors. We introduce the prescription approach, present some of its properties and show that it leads to a new information state. We also state preliminary structural results for optimal control strategies in systems that evolve using word-of-mouth communication. The proposed approach can be generalized to analyze several decentralized systems.
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@article{arxiv.1809.08712,
title = {Structural Results for Decentralized Stochastic Control with a Word-of-Mouth Communication},
author = {Aditya Dave and Andreas A. Malikopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08712},
year = {2020}
}