• DocumentCode
    3165547
  • Title

    A gossip algorithm for aggregative games on graphs

  • Author

    Koshal, J. ; Nedic, Angelia ; Shanbhag, Uday V.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Ind. & Enterprise Syst. Eng., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    10-13 Dec. 2012
  • Firstpage
    4840
  • Lastpage
    4845
  • Abstract
    We consider a class of games, termed as aggregative games, being played over a distributed multi-agent networked system. In an aggregative game, an agent´s objective function is coupled through a function of the aggregate of all agents decisions. Every agent maintains an estimate of the aggregate and agents exchange this information over a connected network. We study the gossip-based distributed algorithm for the exchange of information and computation of equilibrium decisions of agents over the network. Our primary emphasis lies in proving the convergence of the algorithm under an assumption of a diminishing (agent-specific) step-size sequence. Under standard conditions, we establish the almost-sure convergence of the generated sequence to the unique equilibrium point.
  • Keywords
    convergence; distributed algorithms; game theory; graph theory; multi-agent systems; agent objective function; agents decisions; aggregative games; almost-sure convergence; connected network; diminishing step-size sequence; distributed multiagent networked system; gossip algorithm; gossip-based distributed algorithm; graphs; standard conditions; Aggregates; Algorithm design and analysis; Clocks; Convergence; Educational institutions; Games; Vectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control (CDC), 2012 IEEE 51st Annual Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Maui, HI
  • ISSN
    0743-1546
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2065-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0743-1546
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.2012.6426136
  • Filename
    6426136