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Moreover, we provide (tight) bounds on the speed of convergence; these bounds are polynomial in the number of players provided that the pressure grows sufficiently fast.We finally look beyond cliques: we characterize the graphs for which consensus is guaranteed, and make some considerations on the computational complexity of checking whether a graph satisfies such a condition.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2017/512","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/512","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0512.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/512.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/bibtex/512","volume":{"slug":"2017","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2017","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/","year":2017,"location":"Melbourne, Australia","dates":"19-25 August 2017","editors":"Carles Sierra","isbn":"978-0-9992411-0-3","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2017"},"section":"Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications","track":"Main track","number":512,"pages":{"first":3661,"last":3667},"keywords":["Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: AI and Social Sciences","Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Noncooperative Games"],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Acemoglu and Ozdaglar, 2011] Daron Acemoglu and Asuman Ozdaglar. 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