It's the network: Researchers examine behavior influenced by network structure

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 14:08 in Mathematics & Economics

A team of computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania investigating the political, social and economic struggle between individual self-interest and the need to build a consensus have learned that, depending only on the structure of the network of participants, they can engineer surprising experimental results.

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