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15 papers
Management Fads, Pedagogies and Soft Technologies
Jonathan Bendor, Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu
We present a model for the diffusion of management fads and other technologies which lack clear objective evidence about their merits. The choices made by non-Bayesian adopters ref…
The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
Scott Golder, Bernardo A. Huberman
Collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on t…
Truth-telling Reservations
Fang Wu, Zi Zhang, Bernardo A. Huberman
We present a mechanism for reservations of bursty resources that is both truthful and robust. It consists of option contracts whose pricing structure induces users to reveal the tr…
Social Structure and Opinion Formation
Fang Wu, Bernardo A. Huberman
We present a dynamical theory of opinion formation that takes explicitly into account the structure of the social network in which in- dividuals are embedded. The theory predicts t…
Performance Variability and Project Dynamics
Bernardo A. Huberman, Dennis M. Wilkinson
We present a dynamical theory of complex cooperative projects such as large engineering design or software development efforts, comprised of concurrent and interrelated tasks. The…
Email as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations
Joshua R. Tyler, Dennis M. Wilkinson, Bernardo A. Huberman
We describe a methodology for the automatic identification of communities of practice from email logs within an organization. We use a betweeness centrality algorithm that can rapi…