Diversity is beneficial for a research group: One more quantitative argument

• Main Authors: Suriya K., Sudtasan T., Wang T., Lerma O., Kreinovich V.
• Format: Article
• Published: World Academic Union 2015
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Control and Optimization; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
• Online Access: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84929164728&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/handle/6653943832/39152
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

© 2015 World Academic Press, UK. All rights reserved. In this paper, we propose a natural model describing competition between two research groups of the same average research strength. The analysis of this model enables us to conclude that a more diverse group has an advantage: namely, the more div...