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Intelligent Collectives: Impact of Diversity on Susceptibility to Consensus and Collective Performance

Authors : Van Du Nguyen, Hai Bang Truong, Mercedes G. Merayo, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

Published in: Computational Collective Intelligence

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In this paper, we present an approach to analyzing the impact of diversity, one of the most crucial determinants of intelligent collectives, on susceptibility to consensus and collective performance. In the common understanding, susceptibility to consensus refers to the situation in which the obtained collective prediction determined on the basis of individual predictions can be accepted as the representative for the collective as a whole. Computational experiments have indicated that when collectives are small, it is difficult to obtain a high probability of susceptibility to consensus. For large collectives, however, diversity seems not to matter susceptibility to consensus. Furthermore, the findings have also shown that higher collective performances can be the consequence of more diverse collectives. In other words, diversity is positively correlated with collective performance.

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Metadata
Title
Intelligent Collectives: Impact of Diversity on Susceptibility to Consensus and Collective Performance
Authors
Van Du Nguyen
Hai Bang Truong
Mercedes G. Merayo
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
Copyright Year
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98443-8_2

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