  A collective of identical agents in a multi-agent system often works together
towards the common goal. In situations where no supervisor agents are present
to make decisions for the group, these agents must achieve some consensus via
negotiations and other types of communications. We have previously shown that
the structure of the group and the priority of communication has a high
influence on the group decision if consensus theory methods are used. In this
paper, we explore the influence of preferential communication channels in
asynchronous group communication in situations, where majority vote and
dominant value are used. We also show how this relates to consensus approach in
such groups and how to use a combination of both approaches to improve
performance of real-life multi-agent systems.
