INFORMATION CASCADES IN THE ADOPTION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY
http://ericwalden.net/documents/walden_and_browne(2002a).pdf
- By Walden and Browne
Abstract
This work presents a theory of information cascades, based on the work of Bikhchandi, Hirschleifer, and Welch
(1992), to explain fad-like behavior in the adoption of new technology. An information cascade occurs when
an individual ignores his...more
Created: Sunday October 24th 2004 |
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Conversation, Observational Learning, and Informational Cascades
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/fin/dice/papers/2001/2001-5.pd f
- H. Henry Cao and David Hirshleifer
Abstract
We offer a model to explain why groups of people sometimes converge upon poor decisions
and are prone to fads, even though they can discuss the outcomes of their choices.
Models of informational herding or cascades have examined...more
Created: Sunday October 24th 2004 |
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Google
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
- More remarkable stuff from Google - suggests what you might mean to type based on what others have typed.
Created: Sunday December 12th 2004 |
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Collective Intelligence and its Implementation on the Web: algorithms to develop a collective mental map
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/CollectiveWebIntelligence.pd f
- Excellent paper by Francis HEYLIGHEN
Created: Tuesday June 8th 2004 |
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Informational Cascades in Online Learning
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?section=3&list _item=25&page=1
- by Michael Feldstein, an excellent article describing the dangers of informational cascades where the opinions of a small number can result in suboptimal decisions by the crowd.
Created: Sunday October 24th 2004 |
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www.dontclick.it
http://www.dontclick.it/
- Interesting research site written in Flash to investigate interfaces and how people interact with them.
Created: Monday January 30th 2006 |
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Agents Swarming in Semantic Spaces to Corroborate Hypotheses
http://www.aamas2004.org/proceedings/264_weinsteinp_semantic Swarming.pdf
- A description of the Ant CAFE system
Created: Sunday May 8th 2005 |
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Artificial Life
http://douweosinga.com/projects
- Douwe Osinga's page of interesting applets and tools to demonstrate some principles of complexity, artificial life and so on
Created: Wednesday March 16th 2005 |
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Annotated bibliography of papers on stigmergy
http://www-robotics.usc.edu/~dshell/res/annot.pdf
- A useful list from Dylan Shell
Created: Tuesday June 8th 2004 |
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Creating Passionate Users: One of us is smarter than all of us
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/0 3/one_of_us_iisi_.html
- Nice commentary on "The Wisdom of Crowds"
Created: Tuesday April 12th 2005 |
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extisp.icio.us - charting the tags of del.icio.us users
http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi
- CoFIND-like representation of bookmarks from del.icio.us
Created: Saturday November 27th 2004 |
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Evolving a Stigmergic Self-Organized Data-Mining
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_50.html
- Interesting paper from 2004 by Vitorino Ramos, Ajith Abraham
Created: Monday June 7th 2004 |
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A self-organizing, living database for volatile data
http://www.stigmergicsystems.com/stig_v1/papers/page1.html?4 096
- A paper by Peter Small describing his approach to content management via stigmergy
Created: Monday June 7th 2004 |
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Stigmergy and the World-Wide Web
http://bitworking.org/news/Stigmergy
- Interesting article by Joe Gregorio applying stigmergy to various aspects of the Web
Created: Monday June 7th 2004 |
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