When does a newcomer contribute to a better performance? A multi-agent study on self-organising processes of task allocation

JASSS

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Zoethout, Kees ^a   Jager, Wander ^b   Molleman, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Marketing Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Group processes; Psychological theory; Self organisation; Small groups; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954969293     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.1614     Document Type: Article

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