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How Much is the Whole Really More than the Sum of its Parts? 1 + 1 = 2.5: Superlinear Productivity in Collective Group Actions
Didier Sornette, Thomas Maillart, Giacomo Ghezzi
In a variety of open source software projects, we document a superlinear growth of production () as a function of the number of active developers , with $β\simeq 4/3…
Exploring the limits of safety analysis in complex technological systems
D. Sornette, T. Maillart, W. Kroeger
From biotechnology to cyber-risks, most extreme technological risks cannot be reliably estimated from historical statistics. Therefore, engineers resort to predictive methods, such…
Quantification of deviations from rationality with heavy-tails in human dynamics
Thomas Maillart, Didier Sornette, Stefan Frei +2
The dynamics of technological, economic and social phenomena is controlled by how humans organize their daily tasks in response to both endogenous and exogenous stimulations. Queue…
Heavy-Tailed Distribution of Cyber-Risks
T. Maillart, D. Sornette
With the development of the Internet, new kinds of massive epidemics, distributed attacks, virtual conflicts and criminality have emerged. We present a study of some striking stati…