TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatially quantifying the leadership effectiveness in collective behavior
AU - Zhang, Hai Tao
AU - Wang, Ning
AU - Chen, Michael Z.Q.
AU - Su, Ri Qi
AU - Zhou, Tao
AU - ZHOU, Changsong
N1 - HTZ acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC, grants 60704041 and 91023034) and Chinese Program for New Century, MZQC from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (grant AB41680 and Zijin grant AB41356) and T Z from NNSFC (grant 10635040 and 91024026). CZ is supported by Hong Kong Baptist University.
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - Among natural biological flocks/swarms or mass social activities, when the collective behavior of the followers has been dominated by the direction or opinion of one leader group, it seems difficult for later-coming leaders to reverse the orientation of the mass followers, especially when they are in quantitative minority. This paper, however, reports a counter-intuitive phenomenon, i.e. Following the Later-coming Minority, provided that the latercomers obey a favorable distribution pattern that enables them to spread their influence to as many followers as possible within a given time and to be dense.
AB - Among natural biological flocks/swarms or mass social activities, when the collective behavior of the followers has been dominated by the direction or opinion of one leader group, it seems difficult for later-coming leaders to reverse the orientation of the mass followers, especially when they are in quantitative minority. This paper, however, reports a counter-intuitive phenomenon, i.e. Following the Later-coming Minority, provided that the latercomers obey a favorable distribution pattern that enables them to spread their influence to as many followers as possible within a given time and to be dense.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/78651315463
U2 - 10.1088/1367-2630/12/12/123025
DO - 10.1088/1367-2630/12/12/123025
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:78651315463
SN - 1367-2630
VL - 12
JO - New Journal of Physics
JF - New Journal of Physics
M1 - 123025
ER -