Related papers: A note on hierarchies and bureaucracies
We comment on a recent article published in Phys. Rev. D98 (2018) no.9, 094513, arXiv:1811.09029, pointing out severe problems in the numerical investigation leading to questionable results and misleading conclusions during their…
Corruption is a social plague: gains accrue to small groups, while its costs are borne by everyone. Significant variation in its level between and within countries suggests a relationship between social structure and the prevalence of…
We review recent progress made in analyzing the spread of viruses and bugs in the internet. We describe how the use of a model that takes into account the complex inhomogeneity of the internet and its self organizing characteristics can…
We investigate an agent-based model for the emergence of corruption in public contracts. There are two types of agents: business people and public servants. Both business people and public servants can adopt two strategies: corrupt or…
The rise of autonomous pricing systems has sparked growing concern over algorithmic collusion in markets from retail to housing. This paper examines controlled information quality as an ex ante policy lever: by reducing the fidelity of data…
This is a comment on the paper arXiv:1410.2840 by Ji and Jin, to appear in the AOAS.
Corrigendum : An inverse problem in corrosion detection:stability estimates, J. Inv. Ill-posed Problems 12 (4) (2004), 349-367.
The purpose of this erratum is to correct a mistake in the proof of Theorem 4.1 of our paper \cite{CF}.
This paper details on the analysis of human error, an IT security issue, and a major threat to the company. The human is one of the weakest links in the cybersecurity chain however it is a fundamental constituent of the embodiment. This…
In this paper we try to define the difference between hierarchical organization and self-organization. Organization is defined as a structure with a function. So we can define the difference between hierarchical organization and…
We formulate three famous, descriptive essays of C.N. Parkinson on bureaucratic inefficiency in a quantifiable and dynamical socio-physical framework. In the first model we show how the use of recent opinion formation models for small…
We seek to deepen understanding of the micro-foundations of institutionalization while contributing to a sociological theory of markets by investigating the puzzle of price bubbles in financial markets. We find that such markets, despite…
Network structure is a mechanism for promoting cooperation in social dilemma games. In the present study, we explore graph surgery, i.e., to slightly perturb the given network, towards a network that better fosters cooperation. To this end,…
It is natural for humans to collaborate while dealing with complex problems. In this article I consider this process of collaboration in the context of information seeking. The study and discussion presented here are driven by two…
We discuss the nature of structure and organization, and the process of making new Things. Hyperstructures are introduced as binding and organizing principles, and we show how they can transfer from one situation to another. A guiding…
This is the rejoinder for discussion of "Multinomial Inverse Regression for Text Analysis", Journal of the American Statistical Association 108, 2013.
We point out a mistake in the statement of Corollary 2 in R. C. Alperin's paper on Selberg's lemma.
This is an update on, and expansion of, our paper Open problems on $\beta\omega$ in the book Open Problems in Topology.
We show that fluid organizations display higher levels of cooperation than attainable by groups with either a fixed social structure or lacking one altogether. By moving within the organization, individuals cause restructurings that…
At face value, this essay is about understanding a fairly esoteric governance tool called compute thresholds. However, in order to grapple with whether these thresholds will achieve anything, we must first understand how they came to be. To…