Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Sharing economy - Humans, Automation, Resilience and Engineering: SHARE

规划资助：共享经济工程研究中心 - 人类、自动化、弹性和工程：SHARE

• 批准号: 1840493
• 负责人: Ozlem Ergun
• 金额: $ 9.94万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840493&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.The sharing economy can be characterized as a system of dynamic decentralized networks that enables the increased utilization of assets by directly and nimbly matching supply and demand. It is forecasted to grow from $14 billion in 2014 to $335 billion by 2025. Technology has enabled these new platforms to flourish, disrupting traditional businesses and transforming the future of transportation, lodging, computing, energy, and other services. The estimated impact of sharing economy practices on society is striking, directly affecting the lives of more than a quarter of the adults living in the USA. However, the rapid pace of change of new sharing economy technology and practices has resulted in limited understanding of the dynamic interactions of these platforms with the society. The lag in understanding is dangerous as disruptive changes continue to accelerate. Further, while new technology alters the dynamic interactions in how services are provided and distributed, fair and appropriate regulations of the multiple emerging new ways of providing services has not kept up and adapted. SHARE's Vision is a world in which sharing economy platforms are intentionally engineered for socially desirable outcomes considering their long-term sustainability, cyber-security, resource usage efficiency, impact on the environment, workforce and community relations, interactions with public services, and value-creation. SHARE multidisciplinary team of researchers will take the first step toward enabling this convergent vision of a future economy; together with stakeholders, they will not only define the research challenges that will eventually underlie a unified framework for the sharing economy, but also develop the educational programming that must accompany the research to ensure the workforce is in place now and going forward in this key area. SHARE?s Mission is to maximize the positive impact of the sharing economy through integrated comprehensive, trans-disciplinary research that will document and explore changing dynamics, develop new technologies and algorithms for optimizing design, operation, incentives, and security, and identify and compare regulatory and data sharing practices that influence the real-world implementation of sharing economy platforms. We will organize a multi-disciplinary workshop to start what we believe is one of the first convergent dialogues on the sharing economy, to ultimately build a trans-disciplinary research team and a diverse stakeholder community that can synthesize the outcomes of the workshop into meaningful applied focus areas with significant societal impact and sound fundamental research thrusts. The proposed workshop will be formally documented via a report, which will serve as a roadmap for future efforts in this area by the investigators and other researchers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工程研究中心的规划赠款竞争是作为ERC计划内的试点招标运行。 ERC竞赛不需要规划赠款，但旨在培养团队规划融合的中心规模工程研究的能力。共享经济可以被描述为一个动态分散网络系统，通过直接灵活地匹配供需，提高资产利用率。预计到2025年，这一数字将从2014年的140亿美元增长到3350亿美元。技术使这些新平台蓬勃发展，颠覆了传统业务，改变了交通、住宿、计算、能源和其他服务的未来。共享经济实践对社会的影响是惊人的，直接影响到超过四分之一的美国成年人的生活。然而，新的共享经济技术和实践的快速变化导致对这些平台与社会的动态互动的理解有限。随着破坏性变化的继续加速，理解的滞后是危险的。 此外，虽然新技术改变了服务提供和分配方式的动态互动，但对提供服务的多种新兴方式的公平和适当监管没有跟上和适应。SHARE的愿景是一个世界，在这个世界中，共享经济平台被有意设计为社会理想的结果，考虑其长期可持续性，网络安全，资源使用效率，对环境的影响，劳动力和社区关系，与公共服务的互动以及价值创造。 SHARE多学科研究人员团队将朝着实现未来经济的融合愿景迈出第一步;他们将与利益相关者一起，不仅定义最终成为共享经济统一框架基础的研究挑战，而且还将制定教育计划，必须伴随研究，以确保这一关键领域的劳动力现在到位并继续前进。分享？其使命是通过综合全面的跨学科研究，最大限度地发挥共享经济的积极影响，这些研究将记录和探索不断变化的动态，开发新技术和算法，以优化设计，运营，激励和安全，并确定和比较影响共享经济平台实际实施的监管和数据共享实践。我们将组织一个多学科研讨会，开始我们认为是共享经济的第一次趋同对话之一，最终建立一个跨学科的研究团队和一个多元化的利益相关者社区，可以将研讨会的成果综合成有意义的应用重点领域，具有重大的社会影响和良好的基础研究推力。拟议的研讨会将通过一份报告正式记录，该报告将作为调查人员和其他研究人员在该领域未来努力的路线图。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。