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Adding network structure onto the map of collective behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2014

Santo Fortunato
Affiliation:
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland. [email protected]@aalto.fihttp://sites.google.com/site/santofortunato/http://becs.aalto.fi/~jsaramak/
Jari Saramäki
Affiliation:
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland. [email protected]@aalto.fihttp://sites.google.com/site/santofortunato/http://becs.aalto.fi/~jsaramak/
Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Affiliation:
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115. [email protected]://jponnela.com/

Abstract

We propose an extension to the map of Bentley et al. by incorporating an aspect of underlying network structure that is likely relevant for many modes of collective behavior. This dimension, which captures a feature of network community structure, is known both from theory and from experiments to be relevant for decision-making processes.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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