Looking for alternative ways of coordinating agents, this paper explores the adaptation of the Delphi protocol to agent systems. The Delphi protocol can be applied when a community of experts is required to deliver a consensual answer. In these cases, consensus stands for reaching an agreement among the experts about what the answer should be. This consensus reaching problem has been already co...

OBJECTIVE In evaluating the effectiveness of fibromyalgia (FM) therapies, it is important to assess the impact of those therapies on the full array of domains considered important by both clinicians and patients. The objective of this research was to identify and prioritize the key clinically relevant and important domains impacted by FM that should be evaluated by outcome assessment instrument...

Increased advances in communication technology have enabled computermediated communication among geographically dispersed individuals, and created opportunities for them to participate in socio-political decisions at the local, national and global level. Consequently, the structuring of communication processes for facilitating discourse among larger groups of individuals becomes a challenge. De...

BACKGROUND Increasing prevalence of dementia is a major challenge for the German healthcare system. The study DelpHi-MV ("Dementia: life- and person-centered help in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania") aims to implement and evaluate an innovative subsidiary support system for persons with dementia (PwDs) living at home and their caregivers. METHODS DelpHi-MV is a GP-based cluster randomized contr...

Citation: Schoening T, Kuhn T, Bergmann M and Nattkemper TW (2015) DELPHI—fast and adaptive computational laser point detection and visual footprint quantification for arbitrary underwater image collections. Front. Mar. Sci. 2:20. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00020 DELPHI—fast and adaptive computational laser point detection and visual footprint quantification for arbitrary underwater image collections

This paper reports recent progress on the development of the Delphi natural language component of the BBN spoken language system for the ATIS domain, focussing on the comparative evaluation performed by NIST in Jtme, 1990. 1. Delphi and Parlance/Learner Delphi is BBN's research NL system (formerly called CFG), which is based on a unification grarnmax and which incorporates semantics into the un...

BACKGROUND Although multi-sector policy is a promising strategy to create environments that stimulate physical activity among children, little is known about the feasibility of such a multi-sector policy approach. The aims of this study were: to identify a set of tangible (multi-sector) policy measures at the local level that address environmental characteristics related to physical activity am...