tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667378499135678086.post2972339927346102597..comments2012-01-15T19:24:03.375-05:00John Goodpasture, PMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04852874885562983654noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667378499135678086.post-40097125579973471962012-01-15T19:24:03.375-05:002012-01-15T19:24:03.375-05:00Pavel Barseghyan emailed this comment:<br /><br />Leaving aside the very difficult issues related to the entropy of open systems, I would like to comment on the quadratic law of the number of communication lines.<br />Statement of the quadratic dependence of the number of lines of communication among people is valid only for small compact groups, where there is a connection between all. With increasing numbers of people, each individual has connections only with its immediate vicinity or environment, which is one of the signs of rationality of large systems. For example, in the design teams with a hierarchical structure is almost no connection between the groups of lower level. Studies show that this dependence is nearly linear, rather with an increase in the number of people asymptotically approaches the linear dependence.<br />Details you can find here:Pavel Barseghyan<br />http://www.pmforum.org/library/papers/2009/PDFs/july/Barseghyan-Team-Size.pdf<br />(Formulas (47) and (48) and Fig.8)John Goodpasture, PMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04852874885562983654noreply@blogger.com