Open Lecture by Carlos Gershenson "When Slower is Faster"

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The lecture is titled "When Slower is Faster - SIF." The slower is faster (SIF) effect occurs when a system performs worse as its components try to do better. Thus, a moderate individual efficiency actually leads to a better systemic performance. The SIF effect takes place in a variety of phenomena.

Participants will learn about the examples of the SIF effect in pedestrian dynamics, vehicle traffic, traffic light control, logistics, public transport, social dynamics, ecological systems, and adaptation. Drawing on these examples, we generalize common features of the SIF effect and suggest possible future lines of research.

Carlos Gershenson is a Mexican researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. His academic interests include self-organizing systems, complexity, and artificial life.

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