Expert Committees

Bayesian Analysis of Decision Making in Technical Expert Committees

All sufficiently-complex engineered systems require oversight by committees of technical experts. Decision-making by these expert committees is poorly understood. A number of social dynamics might impact the sharing of information among expert specialists. Some of these could be beneficial to the decision process but some could lead to decisions that are not well-informed by all of the specialt...

Games People Play - Conflicts, mechanisms and collective decision-making in expert committees

In this paper, a gentle introduction to Game Theory is presented in the form of basicconcepts and examples. Minimax and Nash's theorem are introduced as the formalde nitions for optimal strategies and equilibria in zero-sum and nonzero-sum games.Several elements of cooperative gaming, coalitions, voting ensembles, voting power andcollective e ciency are described in brief. Analy...

Exploring the role and function of trial steering committees: results of an expert panel meeting

BACKGROUND The independent oversight of clinical trials, which is recommended by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice, is typically provided by an independent advisory Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) and an independent executive committee, to whom the DMC makes recommendations. The detailed roles and function of this executive committee, known as the Trial St...

Program Committees

Local Committees

An interesting conference of representatives of the voluntary hospitals in the West Biding, excluding Bradford, Leeds, and Sheffield, has been held at the Clayton Hospital, Wakefield, with reference to the appointment of two representatives upon the Local Hospital .Committee for the West Eiding in connection with the Voluntary Hospitals Commission. As the result of much criticism of the propose...