About the Authors

Guido Caldarelli

Affiliations IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (ISC), Department of Physics, Università “Sapienza”, Roma, Italy, London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, London, United Kingdom, Linkalab, Complex Systems Computational Laboratory, Cagliari, Italy

Alessandro Chessa

Affiliations IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, Linkalab, Complex Systems Computational Laboratory, Cagliari, Italy

Fabio Pammolli

Affiliations IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gabriele Pompa

Affiliation IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy

Michelangelo Puliga

michelangelo.puliga@imtlucca.it

Affiliations IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, Linkalab, Complex Systems Computational Laboratory, Cagliari, Italy

Massimo Riccaboni

Affiliations IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Gianni Riotta

Affiliations IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, Department of French and Italian, Princenton Univerity, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC AC FP MP MR GR. Performed the experiments: AC MP GP. Analyzed the data: AC MP GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC AC MP MR. Wrote the paper: GC AC MP MR.