Locally noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments

Nature

Volumn 545, Issue 7654, 2017, Pages 370-374

  Shirado, Hirokazu ^a   Christakis, Nicholas A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NOISE; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE; THEORY;

ARTICLE; COORDINATION; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOFTWARE; COLOR; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION STUDY; GROUP PROCESS; MOTIVATION; RANDOMIZATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTOR;

COLOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; GOALS; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85019606182     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature22332     Document Type: Article

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