01522nas a2200193   4500008004100000245007100041210006900112260001200181300001600193490000700209520094800216653002101164653001301185100001701198700001501215700001501230700001501245856006801260       2016                        eng d00aConvergence Analysis of Distributed Set-Valued Information Systems0 aConvergence Analysis of Distributed SetValued Information System  c06/2016  a1477 - 14910 v613 a<div class="rtejustify">This paper focuses on the convergence of information in distributed systems of agents communicating over a network.</div>

<div class="rtejustify">The information on which the convergence is sought is not represented by real numbers, as often in the literature, rather by sets. The dynamics of the evolution of information across the network is accordingly described by set-valued iterative maps. While the study of convergence of set-valued iterative maps is highly complex in general, this paper focuses on Boolean maps, which are comprised of arbitrary combinations of unions, intersections, and complements of sets. For these important class of systems, we provide tools to study both global and local convergence. A distributed geographic information system, leading to successful information reconstruction from partial and corrupted data, is used to illustrate the applications of the proposed methods.</div>
10aEmbedded Control10aRobotics1 aFagiolini, A1 aDubbini, N1 aMartini, S1 aBicchi, A.  uhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7272075