This paper addresses a simple democratic progress model represented by a discrete-event system (DES) and the influence of information accessibility on the progressiveness of the model. Each agent makes a decision according to its selfish criterion, and the final decision for the progress or regression of the system is done by the majority rule based on individual decisions of agents. We first present the conditions for the closed-loop system to be progressive or regressive under full observation where every agent can observe all the states. Then we focus on the masked observation problem, namely, whether the progressiveness of the closed-loop behavior can be changed by restricting the information accessibility of agents that are characterized by their masks. Especially, we show that due to the elite class, the regressive closed-loop system can never be transformed into progressive regardless of mask design, which conforms to the feature of modern democracy.

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离散事件系统框架下民主进步模型的基于多数控制的掩蔽观察

本文讨论了一个由离散事件系统 (DES) 表示的简单民主进步模型，以及信息可访问性对模型进步性的影响。每个代理根据其自私的标准做出决定，系统的进步或回归的最终决定是根据代理的个人决定通过多数规则完成的。我们首先提出闭环系统在完全观察下是渐进式或回归式的条件，其中每个代理都可以观察到所有状态。然后我们关注掩码观察问题，即是否可以通过限制以掩码为特征的代理的信息可访问性来改变闭环行为的渐进性。特别是，我们表明，由于精英阶层，