A simple model of bipartite cooperation for ecological and organizational networks

Serguei Saavedra, Felix Reed-Tsochas () and Brian Uzzi
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Serguei Saavedra: University of Oxford
Felix Reed-Tsochas: CABDyN Complexity Centre,
Brian Uzzi: Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA

Nature, 2009, vol. 457, issue 7228, 463-466

Abstract: Model behaviour: cooperation is simple Networks of co-operative interactions occur in both ecological and socioeconomic situations, with plant pollination by animals and interactions between manufacturing and contracting companies being respective examples. This work proposes a parsimonious model for cooperative networks that predicts the specific properties of real ecological and socioeconomic networks, thereby demonstrating that similar principles of cooperation might underlie both situations.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1038/nature07532

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