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Interacting Discovery Processes on Complex Networks

Iacopini, I; Di Bona, G; Ubaldi, E; Loreto, V; Latora, V; (2020) Interacting Discovery Processes on Complex Networks. Physical Review Letters , 125 (24) , Article 248301. 10.1103/physrevlett.125.248301. Green open access

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Abstract

Innovation is the driving force of human progress. Recent urn models reproduce well the dynamics through which the discovery of a novelty may trigger further ones, in an expanding space of opportunities, but neglect the effects of social interactions. Here we focus on the mechanisms of collective exploration, and we propose a model in which many urns, representing different explorers, are coupled through the links of a social network and exploit opportunities coming from their contacts. We study different network structures showing, both analytically and numerically, that the pace of discovery of an explorer depends on its centrality in the social network. Our model sheds light on the role that social structures play in discovery processes.

Type: Article
Title: Interacting Discovery Processes on Complex Networks
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.248301
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.248301
Language: English
Additional information: Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10128884
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