Collective irrationality and positive feedback

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Nicolis, Stamatios C ^a   Zabzina, Natalia ^a   Latty, Tanya ^b   Sumpter, David J T ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FLOW RATE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; VALIDITY; ANIMAL; ANT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PHYSIOLOGY;

FORMICIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM;

EID: 79955586517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018901     Document Type: Article

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