Social Networks for Effective Teams
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چکیده
In fields as diverse as sociology and physics researchers have been investigating the rich networks that exist in nature. More recently, a small number of multi-agent researchers have shown that the performance of a group can be significantly impacted by the nature of the network that connects them. In this chapter, we build on these initial efforts, performing systematic experiments in an attempt to understand how and why social networks affect group performance. Our key conclusion is that performance of a team can sometimes be improved by imposing a social network with relatively few connections even if it were feasible to connect the agents with a complete network.
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