Title: Consensus of multi-agent systems in scale-free network with different parameters

Authors: Hongyong Yang, Lan Lu, Siying Zhang

Addresses: School of Information Science and Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China. ' School of Information Science and Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China. ' Institute of Complexity Science, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China

Abstract: In this paper, the relation of the moving consensus of multi-agent systems and the power-law characteristic of the scale-free network is studied. Firstly, a consensus-preference scale-free network (CPSF network) model, which has the variable power-law parameters, is presented on the network reconstructed mechanism. Then, the effects of the power-law on the consensus of the multi-agent systems are analysed by adjusting the constructed parameters to change the algebraic connectivity of the scale-free networks. Finally, the converging speeds of multi-agent systems on scale-free network with different configuration are studied by many computer simulations.

Keywords: multi-agent systems; MAS; consensus preference; scale-free networks; different parameters; algebraic connectivity; agent-based systems; power law; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMMNO.2010.035427

International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation, 2010 Vol.1 No.4, pp.289 - 298

Published online: 30 Sep 2010 *

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