Figuring out a company's power and communication structure may be as simple as examining patterns of e-mail exchanges, according to new research by some Hewlett-Packard scientists. to identify ...

People love patterns. Our brains readily organize the stream of information from our senses to find pattern, structure and connections. Our pattern-finding ability lets us understand the world in ...

to identify different formal and informal communities within an organization by graphing mail flow. Researchers Joshua Tyler, Dennis Wilkinson and Bernardo Huberman studied e-mails sent between any ...