Author: Christian Bettstetter

Date: October 06, 2016 at 09:30 – 10:45 am.
Location: Lakeside Park, Building B04b, Level 1, Klagenfurt (Lakeside Labs)

Paul Schweinzer (Professor for Economics, Klagenfurt) will talk about:

Optimal Team Composition and the Apollo Syndrome

We model leadership, competition, and decision making in teams with heterogeneous membership composition. We show that if the choice of leadership in a team is imprecise or noisy — which is arguably the case if appointment decisions are made not only by experts but also by less well-informed executives — then it is not necessarily the case that the best individuals should be selected into a single team.  On the contrary, and in line with what has been called the “Apollo effect,” a team consisting of unambiguously higher performing individuals may perform worse in terms of team output than a group composed of lower performers.  We characterize the properties of the leadership selection process which lead to the Apollo effect and clarify when the opposite effect — in which supertalent teams perform better than comparatively less qualified groups — takes place.

Joint work with Alex Gershkov.

Date: January 28, 2015
Time: 11:45 – 15:00
Location: Lakeside Labs GmbH, Lakeside B04b/1

Outline

• Introducing the selforg blog
• Food for thoughts with TED talk on slime molds
• Glenda Garcia Santos: A STELLA primer

Date: December 10, 2014
Time: 11:45 – 15:00
Location: Lakeside Labs GmbH, Lakeside B04b/1

Outline

• Joint lunch „Food for thoughts“ with TED talks
• Talk: Why are ants so successful? (Norbert Reichmann)
• Talk: A probabilistic approach to binary consensus (Andreas Kercek)
• Talk: A self-organizing model for cell differentiation (Manfred Rabl-Pöchacker)
• Report from the coordinator and next workshop
• Launch of Website

The second retreat of the research cluster “self-organizing systems” took place on October 6 and 7, 2014, in Pörtschach.

Objectives

The main goals were as follows:

• Familiarize with the software tool NetLogo for modeling self-organizing systems
• Review the work done so far in selforg.aau and discuss and plan future activities.

Participants

Christian Bettstetter, Wilfried Elmenreich, Kirsten von Elverfeldt, Glenda Garcia-Santon, Pasquale Grippa, Mihnea Hristea, Andreas Kercek, Norbert Reichmann, Peter Mandl, Martina Umlauft, Vladimir Vukadinovic, Friederike Wall.

Slides

• Netlogo Download (external)
• Netlogo Tutorial (slides + example programs)

Software developed in the group work

• Debris flow simulation: Netlogo program debris flow, debris flow simulation movie (Elmenreich, von Elverfeldt)
• Consensus (Kercek, Bettstetter, Grippa, Vukadinovic)
• Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction (Reichmann, Hristea, Umlauft)
• Pesticides drift (Garcia-Santon, Mandl)

Agenda

Monday

Tuesday