The 'Buy Better Together Challenge' focuses on new models for collective consumer action across a range of markets and aims to inspire innovative models for buying together.
Her research focuses on developing mathematical models for collective decision-making inspired by observing natural systems, such as house-hunting honeybees.
Analyzing Chwe's models for collective action under the respect of weak versus strong links (cf. both Chwe 1999 and Chwe 2000) provides further insights about the interaction between communication networks and common knolwedge.
Hailed equally as brilliant piece of science at work, a book with practical implications for beekeepers, and a revealing exploration of a remarkable model for collective wisdom and effective decision-making, Honeybee Democracy provides another dimension to our understanding of the honeybee as humanity's greatest friend among the insects.
What we've witnessed in Libya, in fact, could be a new model for collective security in which the United States no longer bears a disproportionate share of the risks and costs of intervention.
The Drosophila melanogaster border cells migrate as a cluster during late oogenesis and serve as a powerful in vivo genetic model for collective cell migration.
"You're now equipped with enough game theory to know that the word 'fair' should send up red flags and set off warning bells," Raeburn and Zollman write, as they work through various models for making collective decisions, most of which they find unsatisfying.
This suggests that an explicit model accounting for collective events, in the spirit of MBL, albeit more parsimonious in terms of parameterization, would be an interesting direction to take.
But the objectives of the new organization, which hopes to become a model for similar collectives in other parts of the city, do not end with prying open access to available grant money.
The identification and incorporation of these signals will pose a major challenge for dynamic models of collective decision-making.
