<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Topology of large-scale engineering problem-solving networks"^^ . "The last few years have led to a series of discoveries that uncovered statistical properties that are common\nto a variety of diverse real-world social, information, biological, and technological networks. The goal of the\npresent paper is to investigate the statistical properties of networks of people engaged in distributed problem\nsolving and discuss their significance. We show that problem-solving networks have properties ~sparseness,\nsmall world, scaling regimes! that are like those displayed by information, biological, and technological\nnetworks. More importantly, we demonstrate a previously unreported difference between the distribution of\nincoming and outgoing links of directed networks. Specifically, the incoming link distributions have sharp\ncutoffs that are substantially lower than those of the outgoing link distributions ~sometimes the outgoing\ncutoffs are not even present!. This asymmetry can be explained by considering the dynamical interactions that\ntake place in distributed problem solving and may be related to differences between each actor’s capacity to\nprocess information provided by others and the actor’s capacity to transmit information over the network. We\nconjecture that the asymmetric link distribution is likely to hold for other human or nonhuman directed\nnetworks when nodes represent information processing and using elements."^^ . "2004-01" . . . . . . . . . . . "Yaneer"^^ . "Bar-Yam"^^ . "Yaneer Bar-Yam"^^ . . "Dan"^^ . "Braha"^^ . "Dan Braha"^^ . . . . . . "Topology of large-scale engineering problem-solving networks (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . "Problem-Solving.pdf"^^ . . . "Topology of large-scale engineering problem-solving networks (Image (PNG))"^^ . . . . . . "preview.png"^^ . . . "Topology of large-scale engineering problem-solving networks (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #3535 \n\nTopology of large-scale engineering problem-solving networks\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Decision Theory" . . . "Applied Cognitive Psychology" . . . "Sociobiology" . . . "Behavioral Biology" . . . "Cognitive Psychology" . . . "Theoretical Biology" . . . "Social Psychology" . . . "Behavioral Analysis" . .