Development of a Spatial-Experimental Laboratory for Research and Policy Analysis Related to Complex Systems

该提案旨在开发一个独特的结合国家的最先进的空间，可视化和实验能力的行为科学研究实验室设施在印第安纳州大学。该实验室将是多用途的，重点是了解多个时间和地理尺度的复杂系统。它将有助于研究和教学。该实验室将开发新的功能，用于空间组织的基于代理的建模，社会系统的三维（3-D）可视化，多用户3-D虚拟桌面世界，以及在社会科学研究中实施行为实验和GIS技术。提出这一系列发展活动的研究小组是多学科的，在人类学、经济学、地理学、信息科学、政治学和心理学方面都有很好的实地和实验室研究记录。拟议的实验室设施的一个重要方面是提供基础设施，以加强参与这项建议的研究人员之间的联系。它将创造机会，扩大学者和学生在印第安纳州大学感兴趣的前沿社会科学，结合决策环境的空间属性，重要的是了解人类和生物层面的社会，政治和经济决策的社会。该实验室将使教师和学生参与当前社会科学理论的测试与计算机模拟，基于代理的系统，以及在受控环境中的实验室决策实验的工具。基于在这个实验室进行的研究，我们希望开发新的理论，复杂的个体在空间和时间上的相互作用如何导致复杂的社会生态系统中的涌现特性。拟议的实验室将促进几个正在进行的和未来的活动的生产力和广度：（1）最近资助的生物复杂性项目，将基于代理的建模，实验室实验和GIS技术整合到复杂的土地使用决策和新兴的土地使用模式的研究;（2）与政治态度，取向和判断的可访问性有关的政治沟通网络的研究;（3）在风险和不确定性条件下的资源分配决策研究;（4）在实验室、野外和多地点进行多主体实验;（5）将GIS技术纳入社会科学研究，整合关键激励和结果效应;（6）为实验研究和政策应用创造人工三维环境;（7）关于人类进化的古人类学研究;（8）国际关系;（9）教育和推广。

This proposal aims to develop a unique combination of state-of-the-art spatial, visualization, and experimental capabilities within a behavioral science research laboratory facility at Indiana University. The laboratory will be multi-purpose, with a focus on understanding complex systems at multiple temporal and geographic scales. It will contribute to both research and instruction. The laboratory will enable the development of new capabilities for spatially organized agent-based modeling, three-dimensional (3-D) visualization of social systems, multi-user 3-D virtual desktop worlds, as well as the implementation of behavioral experiments and GIS technologies in social science research. The research group proposing this set of development activities is multi-disciplinary with strong records of field and laboratory research in anthropology, economics, geography, information science, political science, and psychology. An important aspect of the proposed laboratory facility is to provide the infrastructure for fostering stronger linkages among the researchers involved in this proposal. It will create opportunities for enlarging the community of scholars and students at Indiana University interested in frontier social science that incorporates spatial attributes of decision environments important for understanding human and biological dimensions of social, political, and economic decision making. The laboratory will enable faculty and students to participate in the testing of current social science theories with computer-simulated, agent-based systems as well as the tools of laboratory decision-making experiments in controlled environments. Based on the research conducted in this laboratory, we hope to develop new theories of how complex individual interactions over space and time lead to emergent properties in complex social-ecological systems. The proposed laboratory will facilitate the productivity and breadth of several ongoing and future activities: (1) a recently funded biocomplexity project integrating agent-based modeling, laboratory experiments, and GIS technologies into the study of complex land-use decisions and emergent land-use patterns; (2) research on networks of political communication related to the accessibility of political attitudes, orientations, and judgments; (3) investigation of resource allocation decision making under risk and uncertainty; (4) multi-agent experiments in the laboratory, in the field, and at multiple sites; (5) the incorporation of GIS technologies into social science research integrating key incentive and outcome effects; (6) creation of artificial 3-D environments for experimental research and policy applications; (7) paleoanthropological research on human evolution; (8) international relations; and (9) education and outreach.