in the future, competitive advantages will be given to organisations that can extract valuable information from massive data and make better decisions. in most cases, this data comes from multiple sources. therefore, the challenge is to aggregate them into a common framework in order to make them meaningful and useful.this paper will first review the most important multi-criteria decision analy...

The first publication on the subject of this special issue appeared in 1926 [1]. This report described the analysis of halides in ∼1 mL of sap taken from Nitella plant cells. While useful for giant plant cells, the technologies available at that time were not adequate for investigating non-plant cells, including mammalian cells. It was not until 1952, when immortal cell lines became available, ...

We introduce an analytical tool to study the convergence of bidirectional multiagent agreement systems and use it to sharpen the analysis of various natural algorithms, including flocking, opinion consensus, and synchronization systems. We also improve classic bounds about colored random walks and discuss the usefulness of algorithmic proofs.