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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…
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…
Log-normal statistics in e-mail communication patterns
Daniel B. Stouffer, R. Dean Malmgren, Luis A. N. Amaral
Following up on Barabasi's recent letter to Nature [435, 207--211 (2005)], we systematically investigate the time series of e-mail usage for 3,188 users at a university. We focus o…
Comment on Barabasi, Nature 435, 207 (2005)
Daniel B. Stouffer, R. Dean Malmgren, Luis A. N. Amaral
In a recent letter, Barabasi claims that the dynamics of a number of human activities are scale-free [1]. He specifically reports that the probability distribution of time interval…