Scholars Award in Methodological Training in Agent-Based Models and Evolutionary Game Theory

基于代理的模型和进化博弈论方法培训学者奖

• 批准号: 0314284
• 负责人: Eric Smith
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2005-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0314284&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholars; Award; Methodological; Training; Agent

This Scholars Award in Methodological Training for a cultural anthropology researcher will allow him to gain sufficient expertise in agent-based modeling and evolutionary game theory to engage in an active research program applying these methods to important problems in cultural and ecological anthropology. These methods are of growing importance in various fields in the social and biological sciences, and provide a common framework for much current interdisciplinary research on behavior and adaptation. The Principal Investigator will collaborate with senior colleagues who have expertise in these methods, at the Santa Fe Institute and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Evolutionary game theory and agent-based modeling provide complementary tools for analyzing social processes in terms of their .micro-foundations (the actions and motivations of individuals) and dynamics (how change and stability are determined). The substantive focus of this project is on collective action problems and the emergence of inequality in the context of small-scale (non-stratified) human societies. The central research questions to be addressed include 1) the social and ecological conditions which might favor the development of individually costly but group-beneficial norms through processes of within-group status competition and bargaining; 2) the roles of enforcement, signaling, partner choice, and linguistic communication in solving collective action problems; 3) and the elaboration of game-theoretical frameworks for analyzing the effects of resource control, status competition, and inter-group conflict in the emergence and stability of institutionalized sociopolitical inequality. Broader impacts of the proposed research include enhancing the effectiveness of interdisciplinary collaboration on important topics of interest to many social scientists and behavioral biologists by framing analyses in terms of modeling methods used across these disciplines; and offering insights into the generation and solution of collective action problems (e.g., management of resources held in common) that may be of value for applied social science; as well as helping generate tools for more effective teaching of social and biological science concepts, particularly through the use of simulation methods that invite active learning.

该文化人类学研究人员的方法论培训学者奖将使他在基于代理的建模和进化博弈论方面获得足够的专业知识，以参与将这些方法应用于文化和生态人类学中重要问题的积极研究计划。 这些方法在社会科学和生物科学的各个领域越来越重要，并为当前许多关于行为和适应的跨学科研究提供了一个共同的框架。 主要研究者将与圣达菲研究所和马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校在这些方法方面具有专业知识的高级同事合作。 进化博弈论和基于代理的建模提供了互补的工具，用于分析社会过程的微观基础（个人的行为和动机）和动态（如何确定变化和稳定性）。 该项目的实质性重点是集体行动问题和小规模（非分层）人类社会中出现的不平等。 主要研究问题包括：1）通过群体内地位竞争和讨价还价过程，可能有利于个体代价高昂但群体受益的规范发展的社会和生态条件; 2）强制、信号、伙伴选择和语言沟通在解决集体行动问题中的作用; 3）和博弈理论框架的阐述，用于分析资源控制，地位竞争和群体间冲突在制度化社会政治不平等的出现和稳定中的影响。 拟议研究的更广泛影响包括通过在这些学科使用的建模方法方面进行框架分析，提高许多社会科学家和行为生物学家感兴趣的重要主题的跨学科合作的有效性;并提供对集体行动问题的产生和解决方案的见解（例如，共同拥有的资源的管理），这可能是应用社会科学的价值，以及帮助生成更有效的社会和生物科学概念的教学工具，特别是通过使用模拟方法，邀请主动学习。