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The hare and the tortoise: the network structure of exploration and exploitation

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dg.o '05: Proceedings of the 2005 national conference on Digital government research

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Whether as team members brainstorming, or policy experts sharing best-practices, problem solvers communicate and share ideas. This paper examines the how the structure of these communication networks can affect outcomes. We present simulation results demonstrating that more efficient communication networks can actually lower performance in the long run. This effect is manifest in complex (e.g. rugged) problem spaces, where extensive searches are expensive for the individual. When actors can communicate easily or quickly, average performance improves rapidly improves initially, but harder-to-find optimal solutions are less likely to be discovered.

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Merida-Campos CWillmott S(2007)The impact of betweenness in small world networks on request for proposal coalition formation problemsProceedings of the 2007 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development10.5555/1566803.1566814(49-56)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1566803.1566814

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Portland State University
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DGRC and USC/ISI

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Merida-Campos CWillmott S(2007)The impact of betweenness in small world networks on request for proposal coalition formation problemsProceedings of the 2007 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development10.5555/1566803.1566814(49-56)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1566803.1566814

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