Glassy nature of hierarchical organizations
Date
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker
Maryam Zamani (Eotvos Lorand University)
Location
Mondi Seminar Room 1, Central Building
Series
Seminar/Talk
Tags
General Interest Seminar
Host
Gasper Tkacik
Contact
The question of why and how animal and human groups form temporarily stable hierarchical organizations has long been a great challenge from the point of quantitative interpretations. The prevailing observation/consensus is that a hierarchical social or technological structure is optimal considering a variety of aspects. In my talk, I will introduce a simple quantitative interpretation of this situation using a statistical mechanics-type approach. We defined an efficiency function for a typical organization/system which is constructed from interacting individual units with a variety of abilities ai (level of the potential contribution of a unit to the performance of the whole system), and developed an approach to address the question of the spontaneous emergence of hierarchical networks displaying behaviours analogous to those of glasses