IGERT: Incentive-Centered Design for Information and Communication Systems

计算和通信成本的指数级下降引发了惊人的新互联网服务和社会机会。 然而，新形式的社会参与也产生了新的问题。 这种综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）更新将推进一个原则性的，多学科的研究方法，非常适合使互联网成为一个安全，有趣和可持续的地方，具有相应的潜力，以改善社会，经济和政治互动。 以激励为中心的设计是一门将参与者的激励与系统或社会目标相结合的科学。分布式和协作系统的性能关键取决于用户在与系统或彼此交互时做出的策略选择，然而个人兴趣和系统目标之间的不匹配是普遍存在的。 该计划采取了个人动机的广泛观点，借鉴经济学，心理学和社会学理论，并将这些与人工智能，软件和网络的设计和工程科学相结合。更广泛的影响超出了对社会价值的互联网社区和服务的设计的研究贡献。 联合博士密歇根大学和韦恩州立大学（一所大都市综合性机构）的一个项目将培养来自不同社会经济和文化背景的未来学者和教师。 此外，它还包括一个针对代表性不足群体的本科生的暑期课程，他们将与IGERT学员一起参加国际研究竞赛。 该计划将增加来自代表性不足群体的学生人数，他们准备并有动力接受研究生教育。 IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中促进研究生教育的文化变革。

Exponential decreases in computation and communication costs induce marvelous new Internet services and social opportunities. However, new forms of social engagement also create new problems. This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) renewal will advance a principled, multi-disciplinary research method well-suited to make the Internet a place that is safe, fun and sustainable, with corresponding potential for improved social, economic, and political interaction. Incentive-centered design is a science that aligns participants' incentives with system or social goals. Distributed and collaborative system performance depends critically on strategic choices that users make when interacting with the system or each other, yet mismatch between individual interests and system goals is pervasive. This program takes a broad view of individual motivations, drawing on economic, psychological, and sociological theories, and combines these with the design and engineering sciences of artificial intelligence, software and networking.The broader impacts go beyond research contributions to the design of socially-valuable Internet communities and services. The joint Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University (a metropolitan comprehensive institution) will train future scholars and teachers from a diverse array of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. In addition it includes a summer program for undergraduates from underrepresented groups, who in teams together with the IGERT trainees will develop submissions to international research competitions. This program will increase the pool of students from underrepresented groups who are prepared for and motivated to pursue graduate education. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.