• This paper investigates the consensus problem for second-order leader-follower nonlinear multiagent systems with general network topologies. (projecteuclid.org)
  • By using the information of delay-partition and delay-distribution and constructing an appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, the consensus criteria are derived to achieve leader-follower consensus for multiagent systems, which are in the form of linear inequalities that can be solved by employing the semidefinite programme method. (projecteuclid.org)
  • Hongjie Li, Ming Chen, Shigen Shen, Lin Li "Delay-Distribution-Dependent Consensus for Second-Order Leader-Follower Nonlinear Multiagent Systems via Pinning Control," Abstract and Applied Analysis, Abstr. (projecteuclid.org)
  • We present necessary and sufficient consensus conditions for these two classes of multiagent systems, respectively. (hindawi.com)
  • For both discrete-time and continuous-time multiagent systems with single-integrator dynamics and balanced communication graphs, it has been shown in [ 21 ] that the ergodic Markov jump linear system achieves average consensus almost surely if and only if the union of topologies corresponding to the states of the Markov process is strongly connected. (hindawi.com)
  • Over a two-year period, the consortium defined guiding principles and best practices for trustworthy AI through an iterative process comprising an in-depth literature review, a modified Delphi survey, and online consensus meetings. (arxiv.org)
  • Methods -A two round modified Delphi process was used to generate consensus amongst an international panel of 38 experts. (bmj.com)
  • The Delphi consensus process on unilateral cochlear implantation in adults with bilateral severe, profound, or moderate sloping to profound sensorineural hearing loss was guided by a non-voting Chair, Dr Craig Buchman, Head of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, USA. (cochlear.com)
  • The consensus was assessed using the 5-point Delphi score. (unisr.it)
  • on behalf of the Consensus for Magnetic Resonance Protocols Study (COMPS) Group 2022, ' Guidelines for magnetic resonance imaging in pediatric head and neck pathologies: a multicentre international consensus paper ', Neuroradiology , vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 1081-1100. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Some of the processes (agents) may fail or be unreliable in other ways, so consensus protocols must be fault tolerant or resilient. (wikipedia.org)
  • Protocols that solve consensus problems are designed to deal with limited numbers of faulty processes . (wikipedia.org)
  • In evaluating the performance of consensus protocols two factors of interest are running time and message complexity . (wikipedia.org)
  • In the most traditional single-value consensus protocols such as Paxos, cooperating nodes agree on a single value such as an integer, which may be of variable size so as to encode useful metadata such as a transaction committed to a database. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since then numerous consensus protocols have been proposed, mostly for simple single- and double-integrator dynamics (see, e.g., [ 5 - 9 ] and references therein). (hindawi.com)
  • It is pointed out that [ 10 ] design of consensus protocols for agent dynamics delineated, more generally, by linear time-invariant systems is more challenging due to the possible existence of strictly unstable eigenvalues (poles) in the open-loop matrix. (hindawi.com)
  • Conclusions: Consensus was reached among experts on how to best treat patients with DME with aflibercept. (unisr.it)
  • There exists alternative consensus in case of economic policy and conduct of centre-state relations whereas in the case of foreign policy the form may have changed but the substance remains the same. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The originally centralized optimal control problem is embedded into a consensus-based Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers framework to solve it in a distributed receding horizon fashion. (arxiv.org)
  • The results are further extended in [ 16 ] to solve mean square consensus under directed and weighted independently switching random graphs. (hindawi.com)
  • 3. Complete the draft of a consensus standard to validate the performance of hearing protector fit-test systems - ANSI/ASA S12.71. (cdc.gov)
  • That is, the output value of a consensus protocol must be the input value of some process. (wikipedia.org)
  • A consensus protocol tolerating halting failures must satisfy the following properties. (wikipedia.org)
  • A protocol that can correctly guarantee consensus amongst n processes of which at most t fail is said to be t-resilient . (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the important issues in coordinated control is network based consensus protocol design. (hindawi.com)
  • We propose a tethering algorithm for AMR motion control based on a consensus variable protocol. (cdc.gov)
  • The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine invited 12 experts to form a Task Force to update a previous consensus (Antonelli et al. (springer.com)
  • The same five questions addressed in the earlier consensus were used as the outline for the literature search and review, with the aim of the Task Force to produce statements based on the available literature and evidence. (springer.com)
  • That research led to the publication of a landmark 1956 paper by Gilbert Plass. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Whatever claims are made to the contrary, that principle has been established for almost seventy years, since the publication of that 1955 landmark paper. (skepticalscience.com)
  • It is with activities like this one, we can increase awareness and knowledge about how profound hearing loss can be treated successfully, and we would like to thank the group of professionals behind this landmark consensus work. (cochlear.com)
  • For the purpose of reaching consensus, important interaction details of agents in a system are mostly encoded by the communication graph of the system, which gives a general setting to study consensus and allows for the application of graph-theoretical notations and tools. (hindawi.com)
  • The aim of this study was to conduct a quantitative expert consensus survey to identify key characteristics of target users (patients and health care professionals), barriers and facilitators for appropriate use, and resources needed to optimize the use of digital health tools in patients with serious mental illness. (jmir.org)
  • Another sizable contingent of investigators and practitioners favor a different approach (originally published in 2011, newly termed here as "consensus-2"), resembling "consensus-1" in some respects but differing in others, leading to substantial differences between these proposals in the numbers of patients qualifying for diagnosis (and thus treatment). (degruyter.com)
  • Overdiagnosis by "consensus-2" criteria has potential to be problematic, but underdiagnosis by "consensus-1" criteria seems the far larger problem given (1) increasing appreciation that MCAS is prevalent (up to 17% of the general population), and (2) most MCAS patients, regardless of illness duration prior to diagnosis, can eventually identify treatment yielding sustained improvement. (degruyter.com)
  • The aim of this consensus is to provide support to the bedside clinician regarding the diagnosis, management and monitoring of shock. (springer.com)
  • Although many excellent summaries have recently been published for audiences elsewhere, we present our accumulated consensus perspectives on the diagnosis and management of ITP, specifically addressing clinically relevant areas where there are limitations to the available evidence 1 , 2 , 3 (the guideline development process is described in the online Supporting Information , box). (mja.com.au)
  • In this setting, consensus refers to every agent achieving agreement about some common or shared quantity by exchanging information according to a set of rules. (hindawi.com)
  • In this paper, the term shock refers to circulatory shock. (springer.com)
  • A Seoul development consensus can establish a foundation for decisive action in South Korea and in future G20 summits in France, Mexico, and beyond. (oxfam.org)
  • This consensus paper should help to establish a minimal standard of care for the management of severe, profound or moderate sloping to profound sensorineural hearing loss so that for all people who don't have enough benefit from a hearing aid, a solution can be provided. (cochlear.com)
  • More recently, analytical frameworks for solving consensus problems were introduced by Olfati-Saber and Murray [ 3 ] and Jadbabaie et al. (hindawi.com)
  • Theories are valid explanations for things that are supported by an expert consensus of specialists. (skepticalscience.com)
  • In climate science today, there is overwhelming (greater than 97%) expert consensus that CO 2 traps heat and adding it to the atmosphere warms the planet. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Expert consensus is a powerful thing. (skepticalscience.com)
  • The public often underestimate the degree of expert consensus that our vast greenhouse gas emissions trap heat and warm the planet. (skepticalscience.com)
  • The expert consensus view is that review criteria should be developed through a well documented process involving consideration of valid research evidence, possibly combined with expert opinion, prioritisation according to health outcomes and strength of evidence, and pilot testing. (bmj.com)
  • An expert consensus view was generated of 26 desirable characteristics of review criteria. (bmj.com)
  • An expert consensus on the desirable characteristics of review criteria has been generated and the criteria of quality for quality review criteria have been identified. (bmj.com)
  • The appraisal of guidelines for research and evaluation II and grading of recommendations, assessment, development and evaluation instruments were used to develop an expert consensus and evaluate the level of evidence of each recommendation. (ijpsonline.com)
  • Major issues related to physical activity and health were outlined, and selected members of the expert panel drafted sections of the paper from this outline. (cdc.gov)
  • This paper concerns the continuous-time consensus of a network of agents under directed switching communication topologies governed by a time-homogeneous Markovian process. (hindawi.com)
  • When the communication topology is described by a strictly stationary ergodic graph process, a necessary and sufficient condition for almost sure consensus of single-integrator agents is shown to be the connectivity of the mean topology with respect to a stationary distribution of the process [ 17 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The process continues until every member of the group has facilitated consensus on one of the top five community issues. (learningtogive.org)
  • Consensus Process. (cdc.gov)
  • TEMPORARILY RENEWED FOR SIX MORE MONTHS - PLEASE CHECK AND REVIEW Feb 27th, 2024 Updating blocking requirement for big C consensus items from 1 to 2 people. (noisebridge.net)
  • AIMS: The aim of this consensus paper is to review the available evidence on the association between moderate alcohol use, health and disease and to provide a working document to the scientific and health professional communities. (unipa.it)
  • This consensus paper provides a systematic literature review on published data - emphasizing the heterogeneity of methods and outcome measures while suggesting strategies to help bridge knowledge gaps. (psu.edu)
  • Purpose: To reach a consensus, among experts, on the role of aflibercept in diabetic macular edema (DME) through literature review. (unisr.it)
  • The effect has been that ministers must review each technical paper in detail before taking decisions. (who.int)
  • The health environment is also changing, and health ministers are requiring more critical analysis, especially of the more complex public health issues requiring peer review and consensus. (who.int)
  • In 2008, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) published a consensus document on the importance of molecular mechanisms in connective tissue and skeletal muscle injury and healing. (bmj.com)
  • We propose an international, multicenter consensus paper focused on providing the best combination of acquisition time/technical requirements and image quality. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • This white paper is endorsed by several international scientific societies and it is the result of discussion, in consensus, among experts in pediatric head and neck imaging. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • This work describes the FUTURE-AI guideline as the first international consensus framework for guiding the development and deployment of trustworthy AI tools in healthcare. (arxiv.org)
  • This paper presents a summary of domestic and international coal mine rescue training facilities and identifies those that provide unique, real-life and/or state-of-the-art training. (cdc.gov)
  • This often requires coordinating processes to reach consensus , or agree on some data value that is needed during computation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The consensus problem requires agreement among a number of processes (or agents) for a single data value. (wikipedia.org)
  • The processes must somehow put forth their candidate values, communicate with one another, and agree on a single consensus value. (wikipedia.org)
  • One approach to generating consensus is for all processes (agents) to agree on a majority value. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, one or more faulty processes may skew the resultant outcome such that consensus may not be reached or reached incorrectly. (wikipedia.org)
  • Consensus paper: the role of the cerebellum in perceptual processes. (bvsalud.org)
  • 2022) 51(3) Industrial Law Journal 511-559, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2018-12, TLI Think! (ssrn.com)
  • Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/9777 , first published January 05, 2018 . (jmir.org)
  • More papers in AICCON Working Papers from Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione e del Non Profit Contact information at EDIRC . (repec.org)
  • This consensus statement has been endorsed by the THANZ Council and ITP Australia. (mja.com.au)
  • and GVP Cochlear Implants, Sonova said, "for the first time, a world-renowned panel of experts have prepared a consensus statement supporting cochlear implantation as standard of care for the treatment of severe-to-profound hearing loss. (cochlear.com)
  • During the ensuing months, the consensus statement was further reviewed and revised and was formally endorsed by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine. (cdc.gov)
  • Similarly, for second-order discrete systems with (not necessarily ergodic) Markovian switching topologies, the necessary and sufficient condition for mean square consensus becomes that each union of graphs corresponding to the closed sets of positive recurrent states has a spanning tree [ 20 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • However, followers of MCAS literature know there is another sizable world-wide contingent of investigators and practitioners - and patients - who feel there are significant problems with the "consensus" approach and who thus favor the alternative approach advocated by the authors of the 2011 paper, which resembles the "consensus" approach in some respects but differs in a number of other respects. (degruyter.com)
  • The consensus was that any paper published in open literature must be able to stand on its own merits. (cdc.gov)
  • The consensus problem is a fundamental problem in control of multi-agent systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • The design method of consensus gains allows for decoupling the design problem from the graph properties. (hindawi.com)
  • Four types of statements were used for the consensus-statements of facts, recommendations, best practice and definitions (for example, definition of shock). (springer.com)
  • The reaching of scientific consensus is the product of an often lengthy time-line. (skepticalscience.com)
  • 3. Published a scientific paper and NIOSH document highlighting recipients of the Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Award(TM). (cdc.gov)
  • Do you think it is difficult to reach a group consensus? (learningtogive.org)
  • Ask each group to reach a consensus on the top five issues in your community. (learningtogive.org)
  • Were able to reach a consensus and how did you do it? (learningtogive.org)
  • I think in this particular case, many of the people I was working with were colleagues at CDC, and although we are in different divisions and different branches and different disciplines, we know each other, for better or worse, and I think we can reach out to each other and come to a consensus. (cdc.gov)
  • The scholarly terrain of this article charts a course from the making of Nehruvian consensus to the present times. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • This presentation explores how Cultural Consensus Analysis (CCA) can help us understand differences within or between cultures across cultural domains as it relates to rural tourism development. (umass.edu)
  • Given that sub-cultures may exist between tourists and hosts as well as within the same community, CCA can be used as an a priori method to understand cultural consensus prior to implementing tourism development initiatives. (umass.edu)
  • The paper was authored by a new independent panel, including 31 hearing experts from surgical and audiology backgrounds representing more than 13 countries. (cochlear.com)
  • In this article, we aim to answer this question by focusing on the varying levels of consensus in national parliaments when taking military deployment decisions. (cambridge.org)
  • In this paper we consider the use of autonomous mobile radio nodes (AMRs) to provide wireless tethering between a base station and a leader in a tunnel exploration scenario. (cdc.gov)
  • Moderate alcohol use and health: A consensus paper. (unipa.it)
  • The exercise (evaluation/critique of ANY epidemiological paper) that PHAWG went through during its 08/28/2001 meeting with Lucy Peipins, ATSDR epidemiologist) was meant to provide PHAWG members with a useful tool (i.e., the ability to evaluate basic epidemiological studies they may encounter as they try to perform the Public Health Assessment). (cdc.gov)
  • Idvall, M 2015, ' Negotiating consensus : how patients and scientists co-produce and seek concordance when new biomedical standards and health practices are targeted ', Artikel presenterad vid 33:e Nordiska Etnolog- och Folkloristkongressen, Copenhagen, Danmark, 2015/08/18 - 2015/08/21 s. 1-6. (lu.se)
  • Example applications of consensus include agreeing on what transactions to commit to a database in which order, state machine replication , and atomic broadcasts . (wikipedia.org)
  • This may be true of Nehruvian secularism on which there was a weak consensus right from the beginning, but we must not commit the fallacy of confusing what is true of a part with what is true of the whole. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Students from Northeastern region today protested the Delhi University's decision to introduce a compulsory paper on Hindi or any other Modern Indian languages as part of the foundation courses of the four-year undergraduate programme beginning this academic session. (business-standard.com)
  • Hearing implant organisations, Advanced Bionics, Cochlear, MED-EL, and Oticon Medical, today welcomed the first ever global consensus on the use of cochlear implants as the minimum standard of care for adults with bilateral severe, profound, or moderate sloping to profound hearing loss. (cochlear.com)
  • Necessary and sufficient consensus conditions for linear time-invariant systems were explored in [ 11 - 14 ] recently. (hindawi.com)
  • Pass out the Consensus Building Worksheet and give time for each participant to rank the top five issues in their community. (learningtogive.org)
  • It is time to put the Consensus Building Guidelines to work! (learningtogive.org)
  • Do you think consensus building might be important to groups of philanthropists who are giving their time, talents and treasures for the common good? (learningtogive.org)
  • Statements of facts are used to summarize an important topic discussed in the consensus when facts, rather than actions, are discussed and agreed. (springer.com)
  • In the feature selection part, we design an ordinal consensus preserving term based on a triplet-induced graph. (aaai.org)
  • CSI's white paper, BSA/AML Compliance: A Growing Consensus for Change , explores the need to modernize BSA/AML compliance and provides insight on recent updates designed to combat financial crime, including new guidance on Section 314(b) of the USA PATRIOT Act. (complianceweek.com)
  • Real-world applications often requiring consensus include cloud computing , clock synchronization , PageRank , opinion formation, smart power grids , state estimation , control of UAVs (and multiple robots/agents in general), load balancing , blockchain , and others. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wenwu Zhu Preserving Ordinal Consensus: Towards Feature Selection for Unlabeled Data Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34 (2020) 75-82. (aaai.org)
  • This consensus provides 44 statements that can be used at the bedside to diagnose, treat and monitor patients with shock. (springer.com)
  • Here we report additional novel glycosylation sites within non-canonical consensus motifs, in the conformation N-X-C, based on mass spectrometry analysis of partially-deglycosylated glycopeptide targets. (nist.gov)