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In regards to points 4 and 5, 'flat' hierarchies still have nodes that are more connected than others and wield greater influence than others. These have the s
by cobrausn 13y ago
In regards to points 4 and 5, 'flat' hierarchies still have nodes that are more connected than others and wield greater influence than others. These have the same failings.
- EthanHeilman 13y agoYes, and there is this notion of control points which allow you to extract sets of nodes in graphs as hierarchies. For instance this research: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0044459 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone... I would argue that well designed organisations or networks should have enough connections to route around/detect minor damage/corruption and quickly isolate the problem. For instance small world networks have this property http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network . Not all nodes in flat human networks are likely to be equal in information flow, but a plurality of high degree nodes does somewhat mitigate cascading failure due to disconnection but may increase cascading failure due to interconnection such as viruses.
- JamesArgo 13y agoYou obviously know more about this than me. I suppose, I shouldn't have posed such a strong thesis - my English teacher would be very cross if she were to hear about this. As usual, everything is more nuanced and interesting when investigated in some detail.