60 citations · 60 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
physics.soc-ph2005
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…
cs.GT2005
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…
cond-mat.other2004★ 60 cited
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…