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15 - General Engineering
University of Bristol
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Article title
Uninformed individuals promote democratic consensus in animal groups
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Science
Article number
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Volume number
334
Issue number
6062
First page of article
1578
ISSN of journal
0036-8075
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
8
Additional information
The question of how decentralized agents can robustly make collective decisions appears in many contexts including autonomous sensors, robotics, swarm intelligence, and human sociology. Paper creates analytically tractable network model of opinion formation, which predicts a nontrivial phenomenon. Paper has influenced work at more than 40 institutions in 11 countries and received wide media attention including coverage in ABC, BBC, Time, Wired, Wall Street Journal, Daily Mail, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and others [see tinyurl.com/gen-eng-34 for links]. Paper is identified as research group highlight in REF5.
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
B - Applied Nonlinear Mathematics
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