Cross-inhibition leads to group consensus despite the presence of strongly opinionated minorities and asocial behaviour

A Reina, R Zakir, G De Masi, E Ferrante - Communications Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Strongly opinionated minorities can have a dramatic impact on the opinion dynamics of a
large population. Two factions of inflexible minorities, polarised into two competing opinions …

Early adapting to trends: Self-stabilizing information spread using passive communication

A Korman, R Vacus - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Symposium on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
How to efficiently and reliably spread information in a system is one of the most fundamental
problems in distributed computing. Recently, inspired by biological scenarios, several works …

Robotic communication with ants

NR Franks, JA Podesta, EC Jarvis… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
We used a robotic gantry to test the hypothesis that tandem running in the ant Temnothorax
albipennis can be successful in the absence of trail laying by the leader. Pheromone glands …

Algorithmic perspectives to collective natural phenomena

R Vacus - 2023 - theses.hal.science
The capabilities of distributed systems in stochastic environments are inherently limited by
the difficulty of efficiently circulating information within the system. To better understand this …

Many ants make light work; quantifying force output of weaver ant teams

M Stewardson - 2023 - figshare.mq.edu.au
Teams benefit from increased participation to a point–where the benefit of cooperation is
outweighed by the cost of coordination. In social insects, this trade-off has an opportunity to …

Az érdem zsarnoksága

KÁ Nagy - Világpolitika és a Közgazdaságtan, 2024 - unipub.lib.uni-corvinus.hu
Idén jelent meg magyarul a neves filozófus, Michael Sandel könyve „Az érdem
zsarnoksága” címmel. Az „A válogatógép” című fejezetben egy izgalmas javaslatot tesz az …