Social information use and social information waste

Information Certainty Determines Social and Private Information Use in Ants

Decision-making in uncertain environments requires animals to evaluate, contrast and integrate various information sources to choose appropriate actions. In consensus-making groups, quorum responses are commonly used to combine private and social information, leading to both robust and flexible decisions. Here we show that in house-hunting ant colonies, individuals fine-tune the parameters of t...

Efficient use of information and social value of information

¢ cient Use of Information and Social Value of Information

In this document we motivate the restriction < 1 used in the paper (where UkK=Ukk is the slope of the best response). We …rst explain why this restriction is essentially equivalent to uniqueness of equilibrium under complete information (Section A1). We then discuss the role of this restriction for comparative statics (Section A2).

Investigating the relationship between information justice and social capital

: Social capital represents the set of interpersonal relationships which provide resources that create value for individuals in organizations. The present paper aims at investigating the relationship between Information Justice and social capital in Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch. The method of the research is descriptive-correlational and regarding the aim it is f...

Information Technology & Social Role of Users in Collection Development of Library and Information Centers

The process of collection development, collection generating and obtaining information is of basic debates in libraries and information centers which a lot of articles have been written about the methods of collection development of information as well as the application of information technology, accordingly, to this day. This article, as opposed to other articles, which are about the prevaili...