About the Authors

Béla Nagy

Affiliation Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

J. Doyne Farmer

Affiliation Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Quan M. Bui

Affiliations Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Jessika E. Trancik

trancik@mit.edu

Affiliations Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare receipt of funding from The Boeing Company. There are no other declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Developed the concept of the study: JET JDF. Conceived and designed the experiments: JET JDF BN. Performed the experiments: BN. Analyzed the data: QMB. Wrote the paper: JET JDF BN.