Network performance

how groups coordinate, seek knowledge, optimize and reach success

This work focuses on the social dynamics of knowledge exchange and learning that drive collaboration, collective intelligence, and discovery. Most problem-solving tasks are carried out in group or team settings, and require complex interactions that involve cognitive, social and informational exchange. The goal is to develop rigorous models and techniques to understand how groups reach consensus, achieve breakthroughs, and perform in groups.

Featured publications

Reconstructing higher-order interactions in coupled dynamical systems

Federico Malizia, Alessandra Corso, Lucia Valentina Gambuzza, Giovanni Russo, Vito Latora & Mattia Frasca
Nature Communications
June 18, 2024

Hyper-cores promote localization and efficient seeding in higher-order processes

Marco Mancastroppa, Iacopo Iacopini, Giovanni Petri & Alain Barrat
Nature Communications
October 6, 2023

Quantifying NFT-driven networks in crypto art

Kishore Vasan, Milán Janosov, Albert-László Barabási
Scientific Reports
February 17, 2022

Recent publications

Distinguishing mechanisms of social contagion from local network view

Elsa Andres, Gergely Ódor, Iacopo Iacopini, Márton Karsai
Arxiv
June 27, 2024

Cash or Non-Cash? Exploring Ideators’ Incentive Preferences in Crowdsourcing Contests

Christoph Riedl, Johann Füller, Katja Hutter, and Gerard J. Tellis
Journal of Management Information Systems
June 24, 2024

Reconstructing higher-order interactions in coupled dynamical systems

Federico Malizia, Alessandra Corso, Lucia Valentina Gambuzza, Giovanni Russo, Vito Latora & Mattia Frasca
Nature Communications
June 18, 2024

Complex network effects on the robustness of graph convolutional networks

Benjamin A. Miller, Kevin Chan, Tina Eliassi-Rad
Applied Network Science
February 21, 2024

Spontaneous emergence of groups and signaling diversity in dynamic networks

Zachary Fulker, Patrick Forber, Rory Smead, Christoph Riedl
Physical Review E
January 23, 2024
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Featured news coverage

Why Experts Reject Creativity

The Atlantic, October 2014

Featured project

The Science of Success project focuses on developing measures and methods to model and predict success in a range of settings that have quantifiable indicators of performance (e.g., science, sports, software development). Driven by the hypothesis that success is not an individual phenomenon, but rather a collective one, we use large-scale data sets to identify patterns of career paths, individual and team performance, and the dynamics of impact and attribution. Findings offer actionable information towards a quantitative evaluation of success in a diverse range of competitive settings, from science to sports to software development.

Major funders

DARPA, Army Research Office, AFOSR