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Big Data = Big Insights? Operationalising Brooks' Law in a Massive GitHub Data Set
Christoph Gote, Pavlin Mavrodiev, Frank Schweitzer +1
Massive data from software repositories and collaboration tools are widely used to study social aspects in software development. One question that several recent works have address…
Enhanced or distorted wisdom of crowds? An agent-based model of opinion formation under social influence
Pavlin Mavrodiev, Frank Schweitzer
We propose an agent-based model of collective opinion formation to study the wisdom of crowds under social influence. The opinion of an agent is a continuous positive value, denoti…
The ambiguous role of social influence on the wisdom of crowds: An analytic approach
Pavlin Mavrodiev, Frank Schweitzer
"Wisdom of crowds" refers to the phenomenon that the average opinion of a group of individuals on a given question can be very close to the true answer. It requires a large group d…
Modeling User Reputation in Online Social Networks: The Role of Costs, Benefits, and Reciprocity
Frank Schweitzer, Pavlin Mavrodiev, Adrian M. Seufert +1
We analyze an agent-based model to estimate how the costs and benefits of users in an online social network (OSN) impact the robustness of the OSN. Benefits are measured in terms o…
The digital traces of bubbles: feedback cycles between socio-economic signals in the Bitcoin economy
David Garcia, Claudio Juan Tessone, Pavlin Mavrodiev +1
What is the role of social interactions in the creation of price bubbles? Answering this question requires obtaining collective behavioural traces generated by the activity of a la…
Quantifying the Impact of Leveraging and Diversification on Systemic Risk
Paolo Tasca, Pavlin Mavrodiev, Frank Schweitzer
Excessive leverage, i.e. the abuse of debt financing, is considered one of the primary factors in the default of financial institutions. Systemic risk results from correlations bet…