Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Speculator Herding in the World Oil Market

Do Birds of a Feather Really Flock Together? Ideational Homophily and Development Policy Influence

DO BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER? THE FINANCING OF UK SOFTWARE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY FIRMS AT THE EARLIER STAGES OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT By Dr

The Mathematics of Emergence∗

A common situation occurring in a number of disciplines is that in which a number of autonomous agents reach a consensus without a central direction. An example of this is the emergence of a common belief in a price system when activity takes place in a given market. Another example is the emergence of common languages in primitive societies, or the dawn of vowel systems. Yet a third example is...

Herding a Flock of Birds Approaching an Airport Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

The problem of herding a flock of birds is posed in a graph theoretic framework. A novel algorithm, called the n-wavefront algorithm, is developed for enabling a single unmanned aerial vehicle to herd a flock of birds to a desired point. The technique is applied to the problem of diverting a flock of birds approaching an airport away from a protected zone around the airport. The n-wavefront alg...

Does "birds of a feather flock together" matter - Evidence from a longitudinal study on US-China scientific collaboration

China’s status as a scientific power, particularly in the emerging area of nanotechnology, has become widely accepted in the global scientific community. The role of knowledge spillover in China’s nanotechnology development is generally assumed, albeit without much convincing evidence. Very little has been investigated on the different mechanisms of knowledge spillover. Utilizing both cross-sec...