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What makes Individual I's a Collective We; Coordination mechanisms & costs
Jisung Yoon, Chris Kempes, Vicky Chuqiao Yang +3
The collective effort exceeds the sum of its parts when individuals coordinate and regulate their activities and behaviors. This holds true even in self-organizing systems with ope…
Skill dependencies uncover nested human capital
Moh Hosseinioun, Frank Neffke, Letian Zhang +1
Modern economies require increasingly diverse and specialized skills, many of which depend on the acquisition of other skills first. Here we analyse US survey data to reveal a nest…
Scaling Laws for Function Diversity and Specialization Across Socioeconomic and Biological Complex Systems
Vicky Chuqiao Yang, James Holehouse, Hyejin Youn +4
Function diversity, the range of tasks individuals perform, and specialization, the distribution of function abundances, are fundamental to complex adaptive systems. In the absence…
Metrics and Mechanisms: Measuring the Unmeasurable in the Science of Science
Lingfei Wu, Aniket Kittur, Hyejin Youn +4
What science does, what science could do, and how to make science work? If we want to know the answers to these questions, we need to be able to uncover the mechanisms of science,…
Industrial Topics in Urban Labor System
Jaehyuk Park, Morgan R. Frank, Lijun Sun +1
Categorization is an essential component for us to understand the world for ourselves and to communicate it collectively. It is therefore important to recognize that classification…
A common trajectory recapitulated by urban economies
Inho Hong, Morgan R. Frank, Iyad Rahwan +2
Is there a general economic pathway recapitulated by individual cities over and over? Identifying such evolution structure, if any, would inform models for the assessment, maintena…