Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society

TT Hills, PM Todd, D Lazer, AD Redish… - Trends in cognitive …, 2015 - cell.com
Search is a ubiquitous property of life. Although diverse domains have worked on search
problems largely in isolation, recent trends across disciplines indicate that the formal …

Collective behaviour and swarm intelligence in slime moulds

CR Reid, T Latty - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The study of collective behaviour aims to understand how individual-level behaviours can
lead to complex group-level patterns. Collective behaviour has primarily been studied in …

Swarm intelligence and cyber-physical systems: concepts, challenges and future trends

M Schranz, GA Di Caro, T Schmickl… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a popular multi-agent framework that has been originally inspired
by swarm behaviors observed in natural systems, such as ant and bee colonies. In a system …

[書籍][B] Social physics: How good ideas spread-the lessons from a new science

A Pentland - 2014 - books.google.com
From one of the world's leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea
flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social …

The diversity bonus in pooling local knowledge about complex problems

P Aminpour, SA Gray, A Singer… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Recently, theoreticians have hypothesized that diverse groups, as opposed to groups that
are homogeneous, may have relative merits [SE Page, The Diversity Bonus (2019)]—all of …

Social learning strategies regulate the wisdom and madness of interactive crowds

W Toyokawa, A Whalen, KN Laland - Nature human behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
Why groups of individuals sometimes exhibit collective 'wisdom'and other times maladaptive
'herding'is an enduring conundrum. Here we show that this apparent conflict is regulated by …

Decision accuracy in complex environments is often maximized by small group sizes

AB Kao, ID Couzin - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Individuals in groups, whether composed of humans or other animal species, often make
important decisions collectively, including avoiding predators, selecting a direction in which …

Larger groups of passerines are more efficient problem solvers in the wild

J Morand-Ferron, JL Quinn - Proceedings of the National …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Group living commonly helps organisms face challenging environmental conditions.
Although a known phenomenon in humans, recent findings suggest that a benefit of group …

Convergence to consensus in heterogeneous groups and the emergence of informal leadership

S Gavrilets, J Auerbach, M Van Vugt - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
When group cohesion is essential, groups must have efficient strategies in place for
consensus decision-making. Recent theoretical work suggests that shared decision-making …

Counteracting estimation bias and social influence to improve the wisdom of crowds

AB Kao, AM Berdahl, AT Hartnett… - Journal of The …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Aggregating multiple non-expert opinions into a collective estimate can improve accuracy
across many contexts. However, two sources of error can diminish collective wisdom …