Collaborative learning in networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 764-769

  Mason, Winter ^a   Watts, Duncan J ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Diffusion; Exploration exploitation trade off

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET PROTOCOL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NETWORK LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856399780     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1110069108     Document Type: Article

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