Abstract In this paper, we propose a framework to study the resistance to bribery of nodes in a network via average consensus. We extend the proposed bribery resistance measure to sets of nodes, and networks. The proposed framework evaluates quantitatively how much an external entity needs to drive the state of an agent away from its current state, to change the final consensus value. Subsequently, we illustrate our framework with a set of examples, namely: i) how we can use it to compute the bribing resistance of each node in a network; ii) comparing our measure against metrics from the literature in measuring network bribing resistance; iii) how we may utilize the proposed framework to evaluate the bribing resistance of clusters/groups of nodes in large-scale networks.

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多代理系统中节点和网络对贿赂的抵抗

摘要 在本文中，我们提出了一个框架，通过平均共识来研究网络中节点对贿赂的抵抗力。我们将提议的贿赂抵抗措施扩展到节点集和网络。提议的框架定量评估外部实体需要多少才能将代理的状态从其当前状态驱离，以改变最终的共识值。随后，我们用一组例子来说明我们的框架，即：i）我们如何使用它来计算网络中每个节点的贿赂阻力；ii) 将我们的衡量标准与衡量网络贿赂阻力的文献中的衡量标准进行比较；iii）我们如何利用所提出的框架来评估大规模网络中集群/节点组的贿赂阻力。