SBIR Phase II: Software technology to facilitate decentralized coordination across groups working on systemic problems

小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目的广泛影响/商业潜力创建了一个专门为分布式系统中更民主的在线组对组协作而设计的平台。这可以为软件支持协作、民主基础设施的新方式提供洞察，并提高当前对如何在更广泛的范围内优化民主和分散的IT治理系统的理解。一旦成功，这项技术将加快创新的速度和跨多学科团队的协调。该项目旨在研究如何创建具有组-节点数据库体系结构关系的软件。目标是在平衡可扩展性和弹性的同时创建组网络形成层。主要的创新是为分散的组织提供了一个基于软件的系统，它最终将使用分布式网络技术或区块链等分散的底层基础设施。这一范例包括：(A)有效组队和组建联盟的社会协议；(B)支持在分布式网络中工作的民主/合作组织的自动化；(C)加速跨学科和部门的信息发现；(D)针对复杂系统中的全球优化解决方案的模型思维进行数据科学优化。该平台还将探索分形和新兴的群体动力学，作为数千(如果不是数百万)关于大规模分布式组织的群体形成、公地协调和有效沟通的特定性质的微型实验的机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/ commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project creates a platform specifically designed for more democratic online group-to-group collaboration in a distributed system. This could provide insights into new ways software can support collaboration, democratic infrastructure, and improve current understanding of how to optimize democratic and decentralized IT governance systems more broadly. Once successful, the technology will accelerate the rate of innovation and coordination across multi-disciplinary teams. The project is an effort to study how to create software with group-node database architecture relationships. The goal is to create layers of group network formation while balancing scalability with resiliency. The main innovation is a software-based system for decentralized organizations, which will eventually be using a decentralized underlying infrastructure such as distributed web technology or blockchain. This paradigm incorporates (a) social protocols for effective teaming and coalition formation; (b) automation supporting democratic/cooperative organizations working in a distributed network; (c) accelerated information discovery across disciplines and sectors, (d) data science optimization for model thinking for global optimization solutions in complex systems. The platform would also explore fractal and emergent group dynamics, as an opportunity for thousands (if not millions) of tiny experiments regarding the specific nature of group formation, commons coordination, and effective communication for distributed organizations at scale.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.