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8 papers
Foraging under conditions of short-term exploitative competition: The case of stock traders
Serguei Saavedra, R. Dean Malmgren, Nicholas Switanek +1
Theory purports that animal foraging choices evolve to maximize returns, such as net energy intake. Empirical research in both human and nonhuman animals reveals that individuals o…
The role of mentorship in protege performance
R. Dean Malmgren, Julio M. Ottino, Luis A. N. Amaral
The role of mentorship on protege performance is a matter of importance to academic, business, and governmental organizations. While the benefits of mentorship for proteges, mentor…
Micro-bias and macro-performance
S. M. D. Seaver, A. A. Moreira, M. Sales-Pardo +3
We use agent-based modeling to investigate the effect of conservatism and partisanship on the efficiency with which large populations solve the density classification task--a parad…
Poissonian bursts in e-mail correspondence
C. Anteneodo, R. Dean Malmgren, D. R. Chialvo
Recent work has shown that the distribution of inter-event times for e-mail communication exhibits a heavy tail which is statistically consistent with a cascading Poisson process.…
Characterizing Individual Communication Patterns
R. Dean Malmgren, Jake M. Hofman, Luis A. N. Amaral +1
The increasing availability of electronic communication data, such as that arising from e-mail exchange, presents social and information scientists with new possibilities for chara…
A Poissonian explanation for heavy-tails in e-mail communication
R. Dean Malmgren, Daniel B. Stouffer, Adilson E. Motter +1
Patterns of deliberate human activity and behavior are of utmost importance in areas as diverse as disease spread, resource allocation, and emergency response. Because of its wides…