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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 158731, 9 pages
Distributed Consensus for Discrete-Time Directed Networks of Multiagents with Time-Delays and Random Communication Links
1Department of Mathematics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225002, China
2Department of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Agder, 4898 Grimstad, Norway
3School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Received 11 May 2013; Accepted 5 June 2013
Academic Editor: Zidong Wang
Copyright © 2013 Yurong Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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