Between Control and Consensus

Books about Dynamic Consensus Networks

Presentation of ritual as a means of consensus and taboo as a means of control; outline of Kunapipi myth; association of taboo with ritual; social function of exogamy and the symbolic connection of the avoidance taboo; reasons for ceremonial intercourse (exchanging of wives); quotes Berndt, Warner and Stanner.

Books about NIH Consensus and State-of-the-science Statements

The Case-Control Study: Consensus and Controversy focuses on the history and the evolution of the case-control study, addresses the methodological issues discussed in this book, and presents illustrative studies to examine the problems and opportunities inherent in the method. This text first discusses the progress and evolution of case-control studies.

Synchronization, consensus and flocking are ubiquitous requirements in networked systems. Pinning Control of Complex Networked Systems investigates these requirements by using the pinning control strategy, which aims to control the whole dynamical network with huge numbers of nodes by imposing controllers for only a fraction of the nodes. As the