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Moreira AA, Mathur A, Diermeier D, et al. Efficient system-wide coordination in noisy environments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004;101(33):12085-90doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400672101.
Moreira, A. A., Mathur, A., Diermeier, D., & Amaral, L. A. (2004). Efficient system-wide coordination in noisy environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(33), 12085-90. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0400672101
Moreira, André A, et al. "Efficient system-wide coordination in noisy environments." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 101,33 (2004): 12085-90. doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0400672101
Moreira AA, Mathur A, Diermeier D, Amaral LA. Efficient system-wide coordination in noisy environments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Aug 17;101(33):12085-90. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400672101. Epub 2004 Aug 05. PMID: 15297617; PMCID: PMC514439.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Aug 17;101(33):12085-90. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400672101. Epub 2004 Aug 05.

Efficient system-wide coordination in noisy environments.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

André A Moreira, Abhishek Mathur, Daniel Diermeier, Luís A N Amaral

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  1. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

PMID: 15297617 PMCID: PMC514439 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0400672101

Abstract

Many natural and social systems display global organization and coordination without centralized control. The origin of this global coordination is a topic of great current interest. Here we investigate a density-classification task as a model system for coordination and information processing in decentralized systems. We show that sophisticated strategies, selected under idealized conditions, are not robust to environmental changes. We also demonstrate that a simple heuristic is able to successfully complete the classification task under a broad range of environmental conditions. Our findings hint at the possibility that complex networks and ecologically efficient rules coevolve over time.

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