Carlos Garcia Timon has raised a thread in the OpenBC forum on collective intelligence, while trying to pick ideas on different domains. He says that Nature magazine has published an interesting idea from Hisashi Ohtsuki: A cooperative behaviour is succesful from an evolving perspective if the benefits of that cooperative behaviour divided by the cost, exceeds the average number of the network neighbours. Carlos ponders over the idea and says
Anyone can bring some light about this? its a simple but a powerful idea...
I immediate recognized the article on that Carlos mentioned, but am not sure what the powerful idea is that he is thinking about. Hoping that this thread could jumpstart an interesting discovery with other participants, I replied
Carlos,
"The fewer friends I have the more strongly my fate is bound to theirs" is the lemma that Ohtsuki describes in the article. I like it, but you have to read quite some background materials if you are not familiar with these theories of evolutionary dynamics and social networks. Check Hamilton's "The genetical evolution of social behaviour" for more pioneering work on this.
How do you apply these theories in your work of organizational (or social) network analysis is my question?
Erik
The conversation on evolutionary dynamics and network analysis is on. I am also looking for an application int he organization and social network application with respect to communities. At this point however, I need some deeper thinking. Contributions to the conversation can be mad edirectly on the forum on OpenBC (or can be sent to me by email). A sidenote is from my side is that the article that Carlos is referring to is for sale on the Nature website, but for as long as it lasts you can also download it here for free.
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