Collective behaviour, uncertainty and environmental change

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 2055, 2015, Pages

  Bentley, R Alexander ^a   O'Brien, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Crowd sourcing; Decision making; Fitness landscapes; Social learning; Social media networking

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR; CROWD SOURCING; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES; FITNESS LANDSCAPE; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84944104933     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0461     Document Type: Article

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