About the Authors

Jierui Xie

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Jeffrey Emenheiser

Affiliations Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Matthew Kirby

Affiliations Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Sameet Sreenivasan

sreens@rpi.edu

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Gyorgy Korniss

Affiliations Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GK BKS SS. Performed the experiments: JX JE MK. Analyzed the data: JX JE MK SS. Wrote the paper: JX JE MK GK BKS SS. Performed analytical calculations described in Supporting Text S1: JX BKS SS.