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Restart Strategies and Internet Congestion
Sebastian M. Maurer, Bernardo A. Huberman
We recently presented a methodology for quantitatively reducing the risk and cost of executing electronic transactions in a bursty network environment such as the Internet. In the…
Local Controls for Large Assemblies of Nonlinear Elements
Michael Youssefmir, Bernardo Huberman
We introduce a set of local procedures that are capable of controlling distributed systems that exhibit complex dynamical behavior. These local controllers need only perturb local…
Evolutionary Games and Computer Simulations
Bernardo A. Huberman, Natalie S. Glance
The prisoner's dilemma has long been considered the paradigm for studying the emergence of cooperation among selfish individuals. Because of its importance, it has been studied thr…
Diversity and Collective Action
Bernardo Huberman, Natalie Glance
We elucidate the dynamics of ongoing collective action among intentional agents with diverse beliefs and imperfect information. Their decisions on whether or not to contribute to t…
Organizational Fluidity and Sustainable Cooperation
Natalie Glance, Bernardo Huberman
We show that fluid organizations display higher levels of cooperation than attainable by groups with either a fixed social structure or lacking one altogether. By moving within the…