Homophily-based social group formation in a spin glass self-assembly framework

J Korbel, SD Lindner, TM Pham, R Hanel, S Thurner - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Homophily, the tendency of humans to attract each other when sharing similar features,
traits, or opinions, has been identified as one of the main driving forces behind the formation …

Structural robustness and vulnerability of networks

AC Schwarze, J Jiang, J Wray, MA Porter - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Networks are useful descriptions of the structure of many complex systems. Unsurprisingly, it
is thus important to analyze the robustness of networks in many scientific disciplines. In …

Struggling with change: The fragile resilience of collectives

F Schweitzer, C Zingg… - … on Psychological Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Collectives form nonequilibrium social structures characterized by volatile dynamics.
Individuals join or leave. Social relations change quickly. Therefore, unlike engineered or …

Organizational Development as Generative Entrenchment

C Moser, PE Smaldino - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
A critical task for organizations is how to best structure themselves to efficiently allocate
information and resources to individuals tasked with solving sub-components of the …

Modeling social resilience: Questions, answers, open problems

F Schweitzer, G Andres, G Casiraghi… - Advances in Complex …, 2022 - World Scientific
Resilience denotes the capacity of a system to withstand shocks and its ability to recover
from them. We develop a framework to quantify the resilience of highly volatile, non …

Introducing Entropy into Organizational Psychology: An Entropy-Based Proactive Control Model

H Jia, L Wang - Behavioral Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper provides a systematic review of the transfer and quantification of the concept of
entropy in multidisciplinary fields and delves into its future applications and research …

Detecting the functional interaction structure of software development teams

C Zingg, A von Gernler, C Arzig, F Schweitzer, C Gote - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The functional interaction structure of a team captures the preferences with which members
of different roles interact. This paper presents a data-driven approach to detect the functional …

The downside of heterogeneity: How established relations counteract systemic adaptivity in tasks assignments

G Casiraghi, C Zingg, F Schweitzer - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
We study the lock-in effect in a network of task assignments. Agents have a heterogeneous
fitness for solving tasks and can redistribute unfinished tasks to other agents. They learn …

Controlling network dynamics

A Li, YY Liu - Advances in Complex Systems, 2019 - World Scientific
Network science has experienced unprecedented rapid development in the past two
decades. The network perspective has also been widely applied to explore various complex …

Derivation and Application of the Subjective–Objective Probability Relationship from Entropy: The Entropy Decision Risk Model (EDRM)

T Monroe, M Beruvides, V Tercero-Gómez - Systems, 2020 - mdpi.com
The uncertainty, or entropy, of an atom of an ideal gas being in a certain energy state mirrors
the way people perceive uncertainty in the making of decisions, uncertainty that is related to …