Consensus software robustness and social good

Consensus Software: Robustness and Social Good

Consensus Software: Robustness and Social Good via Widespread Multiagent Development

This paper describes two complementary research thrusts: (1) it investigates how software robustness can be achieved pragmatically through the use of large-scale multiagent systems, and (2) it investigates how a broader spectrum of people can contribute to the production and customization of software, also through the use of multiagent systems. The paper first hypothesizes that robust software ...

Robustness in Consensus Networks

We consider the problem of robustness in large consensus networks that occur in many areas such as distributed optimization. Robustness, in this context, is the scaling of performance measures, e.g.: H2–norm, as a function of network dimension. We provide a formal framework to quantify the relation between such performance scaling and the convergence speed of the network. Specifically, we provi...

The robustness of democratic consensus

In linear models of consensus dynamics, the state of the various agents converges to a value which is a convex combination of the agents’ initial states. We call it democratic if in the large scale limit (number of agents going to infinity) the vector of convex weights converges to 0 uniformly. Democracy is a relevant property which naturally shows up when we deal with opinion dynamic models an...

Sociological Explanation of Social Consensus in Shahrekord

Introduction: Considering the impact of social solidarity on the development of societies and the fact that solidarity is the basis of any kind of planning and policy in society, recognizing it can be a great help for development. On the other hand, the main goal of all political systems is to try to unite social groups, which is achieved in the shadow of social solidarity. Method: The researc...