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Discrete Time Stochastic Automata Network with Steady-State Product Form Distribution

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We present some sufficient conditions for a discrete time SAN to have a steady-state distribution which has a multiplicative form. The proofs are based on algebraic properties of the tensor operations associated with SAN. Some examples are given.

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The author is supported by grant ANR-12-MONU-00019 Marmote.

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Fourneau, J.M. (2016). Discrete Time Stochastic Automata Network with Steady-State Product Form Distribution. In: Abdelrahman, O., Gelenbe, E., Gorbil, G., Lent, R. (eds) Information Sciences and Systems 2015. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 363. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22635-4_22

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