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cs.GT2014★ 1 cited
Using Prediction Markets to Incentivize and Measure Collective Knowledge Production
Thomas Maillart, Didier Sornette
We present a mechanism design, coupling an online collaboration software and a prediction market, which allows tracking down the very roots of individual incentives, actions and ho…
physics.soc-ph2014★ 36 cited
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…