Collaborative Research: Strategy and Structure: Exploration and Instrument Development

合作研究：策略和结构：探索和仪器开发

• 批准号: 9810907
• 负责人: Phillip Bonacich
• 金额: $ 7.17万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-15 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9810907&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Strategy; Structure; Exploration

This is a study of optimal strategies for different positions in exchange networks, employing computer simulations and evolutionary game theory. Existing work has either not paid attention to the strategies used by people in exchange networks or has assumed that all people use the same simple strategy. Moreover, existing work has ignored potentially cooperative relations between positions where actions affect one another, even though they do not exchange with one another. The current project extends the concept of evolutionary stability to apply to exchange networks and modifies the replicator dynamics to study the hypothetical evolution of strategy sets in exchange networks. A central part of this project is an interactive site on the World Wide Web, employing the ExNet II simulation programmed in Java. The user can construct networks of various configurations by placing nodes and exchange relations. As simulants interact, ExNet will display all ongoing offers, counteroffers, acceptances and exchanges. The website will bridge between research and instruction, because it can be incorporated in college courses as well as employed by researchers to develop theoretical ideas. Students selecting and designing strategies and structures bring fresh perspectives and may find patterns not found by researchers who are more experienced. This project contributes to fundamental theoretical understanding of knowledge networks, which is essential for creation of the communication systems of the future. The web-based educational component provides research-like training activities for social science students, that are often lacking at their colleges and universities.

这是一项利用计算机模拟和进化博弈论研究交换网络中不同位置的最优策略的研究。现有的工作要么没有关注人们在交换网络中使用的策略，要么假设所有人都使用相同的简单策略。此外，现有的工作忽略了行动相互影响的立场之间潜在的合作关系，即使它们并不相互交换。当前的项目将进化稳定性的概念扩展到交换网络，并修改复制器动力学以研究交换网络中策略集的假设进化。 该项目的核心部分是万维网上的交互式站点，采用用 Java 编程的 ExNet II 模拟。 用户可以通过放置节点和交换关系来构建各种配置的网络。 当模拟物交互时，ExNet 将显示所有正在进行的报价、还价、接受和交换。 该网站将成为研究和教学之间的桥梁，因为它可以纳入大学课程，也可以被研究人员用来发展理论思想。 学生选择和设计策略和结构会带来新的视角，并可能发现更有经验的研究人员未发现的模式。 该项目有助于对知识网络的基本理论理解，这对于创建未来的通信系统至关重要。基于网络的教育部分为社会科学专业的学生提供类似研究的培训活动，而这些活动在他们的学院和大学中往往是缺乏的。