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@article{citeulike:5785141, abstract = {We develop elements of a theory of cooperation and coordination in networks. Rather than considering a communication network as a means of distributing information, or of reconstructing random processes at remote nodes, we ask what dependence can be established among the nodes given the communication constraints. Specifically, in a network with communication rates between the nodes, we ask what is the set of all achievable joint distributions p(x1, ..., xm) of actions at the nodes on the network. Several networks are solved, including arbitrarily large cascade networks. Distributed cooperation can be the solution to many problems such as distributed games, distributed control, and establishing mutual information bounds on the influence of one part of a physical system on another.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Cuff, Paul and Permuter, Haim and Cover, Thomas}, citeulike-article-id = {5785141}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2408}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.2408}, day = {13}, eprint = {0909.2408}, keywords = {distributions, information, networks, theory}, month = {Sep}, posted-at = {2009-09-15 06:41:42}, priority = {2}, title = {Coordination Capacity}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2408}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5785141 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5785141 N2 - We develop elements of a theory of cooperation and coordination in networks. Rather than considering a communication network as a means of distributing information, or of reconstructing random processes at remote nodes, we ask what dependence can be established among the nodes given the communication constraints. Specifically, in a network with communication rates between the nodes, we ask what is the set of all achievable joint distributions p(x1, ..., xm) of actions at the nodes on the network. Several networks are solved, including arbitrarily large cascade networks. Distributed cooperation can be the solution to many problems such as distributed games, distributed control, and establishing mutual information bounds on the influence of one part of a physical system on another. TI - Coordination Capacity KW - distributions KW - information KW - networks KW - theory AU - Cuff, Paul AU - Permuter, Haim AU - Cover, Thomas PY - 2009/Sep/13/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2408 ER -