Cardiorenal metabolic syndrome is a group of interactive conditions affecting cardiovascular, renal and systems. Treatment for this multidimensional complex, partly as result the current lack definition inclusion exclusion criteria. Symptoms can fluctuate follow nonconforming pattern, treatment dependent on severity underlying involved. A multidisciplinary service model integrate care patients ...

The strong consensus (SC) problem is a variant of the conventional distributed consensus problem (also known as the Byzantine agreement problem). The SC problem requires that the agreed value among fault-free processors be one of the fault-free processor’s initial values. Originally, the problem was studied in a fully connected network with malicious faulty processors. In this paper, the SC pro...

A common approach to interactive narrative involves imbuing the computer with all of the potential story preauthored story experiences (e.g. as beats, plot points, planning operators, etc.). This has resulted in an accepted paradigm where stories are not created by or with the user; rather, the user is given piecemeal access to the story from the gatekeeper of story knowledge: the computer (e.g...

In this paper, we introduce a flexible consensus reaching process when agents evaluate the alternatives through linguistic expressions formed by a linguistic term, when they are confident on their opinions, or by several consecutive linguistic terms, when they hesitate. Taking into account an appropriate metric on the set of linguistic expressions and an aggregation function, a degree of consen...

As modern communication networks become increasingly advanced, so does the ability and necessity to communicate to make more informed decisions. However, communication alone is not sufficient; the method by which information is incorporated and used to make the decision is of critical importance. This thesis develops a novel distributed agreement protocol that allows multiple agents to agree up...

Spanish universities have been implementing gender equality policies for over a decade. The research presented here aims to determine the barriers and challenges perceived by female academics in Faculty of Education at University Alicante. study used seven-point Likert-type scale survey consisting 10 items, which were validated specialists from different universities. One key findings was that ...

The consensus problem in a multi-agent system with general nonlinear coupling is investigated in this paper. It is demonstrated that, under suitable conditions on communication, all agents approach a prescribed value if a small fraction of them are controlled by simple feedback control. The stability analysis is based on a blend of graph-theoretic and system-theoretic tools where the contractio...

Assuming a linguistic framework, a model for the consensus reaching problem in heterogeneous group decision making is proposed. This model contains two types of linguistic consensus measures: linguistic consensus degrees and linguistic proximities to guide the consensus reaching process. These measures evaluate the current consensus state in three levels of action: level of the pairs of alterna...

Consensus reaching processes are applied in group decision making problems to reach a mutual agreement among a group of decision makers before making a common decision. Different consensus models have been developed to facilitate consensus reaching processes. However, new trends bring diverse challenges in group decision making, such as the modelling of different types of information and of lar...