Diversity Is Beneficial for a Research Group: One More Quantitative Argument

Authors

Komsan Suriya, Chiang Mai UniversityFollow
Tatcha Sudtasan, Chiang Mai UniversityFollow
Tonghui Wang, New Mexico State University - Main CampusFollow
Octavio Lerma, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

1-2014

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-14-04

To appear in Journal of Uncertain Systems

Abstract

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 diverse the group, the higher the average quality of its publications.