A networked transferable belief model approach for distributed data aggregation - Dynamic version

This paper investigates the data aggregation problem for a multi-agent system. In this framework, agents are assumed to be independent reliable sources which collect data and collaborate to reach a common knowledge. In particular, agents are assumed to dynamically gather data over time, i.e., a dynamic scenario. A protocol for distributed data aggregation which is proved to converge to the basic belief assignment (BBA) given by a centralized aggregation based on the Transferable Belief Model (TBM) is provided.

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