Christoforos Somarakis, Reza Hadadi, John S. Baras (2016), 2016 European Control Conference (ECC), pp. 1445–1450 — DOI-10.1109/ECC.2016.7810493
Key takeaways
- For networks of agents that each have their own independently evolving opinion dynamics and communicate cooperatively with neighbours, non-negative matrix theory gives sufficient conditions for stability and convergence to a common synchronized opinion, for both identical and non-identical agents. The “scrambling” connectivity condition is presumably what the title names; I have not verified this from the full text.
Seeded from the abstract alone, not a reading. What follows is what the work says about itself.
The paper studies social or opinion networks of autonomous agents, each holding a personal view that follows its own dynamics while it exchanges information with neighbours through a cooperative algorithm. Using non-negative matrix theory, the authors analyse both identical and non-identical views and derive sufficient conditions for stability and for convergence to a common synchronized opinion.
Standing in the record
Filed from the survey of 2026-09-25 of work the anthology set aside as out of scope (tier C): 330 seconds of active reading over 1 session in the papers-feed tracker. Deferred because nobody has read it closely here yet, not on merit.
Priority for a deeper reading: low — Only the abstract is reachable (paywalled IEEE conference paper). Moderate owner time (t=330 s, one session). Narrow in scope.
What a deeper reading should check:
- A control-theory contribution to consensus with heterogeneous agents. A deeper reading should find what “scrambling” means here (probably scrambling matrices in the Seneta/Hajnal sense, which is unverified) and how restrictive the sufficient conditions are.
- It has no ML content. It is a network-science or complex-systems reading-list item at most.
Access when seeded: Crossref metadata gave title, authors, venue, pages and a month-only date (June 2016), hence the -01 day. The IEEE Xplore page returned an empty 202. Semantic Scholar elides the abstract and marks the paper closed. OpenAlex supplied the abstract text. I found no arXiv preprint. Full text not read.