LSV Seminar
The LSV seminar takes place on Tuesday at 11:00 AM. The usual location is the conference room at Pavillon des Jardins (venue). If you wish to be informed by e-mail about upcoming seminars, please contact Stéphane Le Roux and Matthias Fuegger.
The seminar is open to public and does not require any form of registration.
Past Seminars
Highly restricted distributed systems - the example of opinion dynamics
- Date
- Tuesday, October 25 2016 at 11:00AM
- Place
- Salle de Conférence (Pavillon des Jardins)
- Speaker
- Matthias Fuegger (LSV)
Several man-made distributed systems, like mobile sensor nodes, and natural distributed systems, like bird flocks, can be modeled by agents whose communication or computational capabilities are severely limited.
I will start with a brief overview on problems I have been and am currently looking at within this domain, ranging from VLSI systems to the Physarum slime mold.
The main part of the talk will then detail on a prominent example from opinion dynamics: so called Hegselmann-Krause (HK) systems. Although its update rules are deceptively simple, many fundamental questions are still open today. I will give an introduction into the state of the art about HK, discuss different proof techniques, and show effective bounds on agent stabilization time. The talk concludes with a list of open problems.