TY - GEN
T1 - Merging opinions by social sampling of posteriors
AU - Sarwate, Anand D.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Inspired by opinion formation models for social networks, we consider a scenario wherein a third party or external agent solicits information from agents who can sample and observe an underlying parameter. Different sharing mechanisms are natural depending on the problem parameters. We examine some of these schemes and what the external agent needs to know about the observations. We draw a connection between opinion merging and some ideas from Markov chain Monte Carlo.
AB - Inspired by opinion formation models for social networks, we consider a scenario wherein a third party or external agent solicits information from agents who can sample and observe an underlying parameter. Different sharing mechanisms are natural depending on the problem parameters. We examine some of these schemes and what the external agent needs to know about the observations. We draw a connection between opinion merging and some ideas from Markov chain Monte Carlo.
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U2 - 10.1109/Allerton.2012.6483243
DO - 10.1109/Allerton.2012.6483243
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875715750
SN - 9781467345385
T3 - 2012 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2012
SP - 379
EP - 385
BT - 2012 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2012
T2 - 2012 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2012
Y2 - 1 October 2012 through 5 October 2012
ER -