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

工程研究中心规划奖助金竞赛是作为ERC计划的试点征集活动进行的。计划拨款并不是整个ERC竞赛的一部分，而是为了在团队之间建立能力，以计划集中的、中央规模的工程研究。共享经济可以被描述为一个动态的分散网络系统，通过直接和灵活地匹配供需来提高资产的利用率。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，并改变了交通、住宿、计算、能源和其他服务的未来。据估计，分享经济做法对社会的影响是惊人的，直接影响到超过四分之一生活在美国的成年人的生活。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了解有限。随着颠覆性变化继续加速，理解上的滞后是危险的。此外，尽管新技术改变了服务提供和分配方式的动态互动，但对多种新兴的提供服务的新方式的公平和适当的监管并没有跟上和适应。Share的愿景是这样一个世界：考虑到共享经济平台的长期可持续性、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，共享经济平台被有目的地设计成社会期望的结果。Share多学科研究团队将朝着实现未来经济的这一融合愿景迈出第一步；他们将与利益相关者一起，不仅定义最终将奠定共享经济统一框架的研究挑战，而且还将制定必须伴随研究的教育规划，以确保劳动力现在到位并在这一关键领域向前发展。共享？S的使命是通过综合的跨学科研究最大限度地发挥共享经济的积极影响，该研究将记录和探索不断变化的动态，开发用于优化设计、运营、激励和安全的新技术和算法，并确定和比较影响共享经济平台现实世界实施的监管和数据共享做法。我们将组织一个多学科研讨会，以启动我们认为是关于共享经济的首批趋同对话之一，最终建立一个跨学科研究团队和不同的利益攸关方社区，能够将研讨会的成果综合成具有重大社会影响和健全的基础研究推动力的有意义的应用重点领域。拟议的研讨会将通过一份报告正式记录下来，这将成为研究人员和其他研究人员未来在这一领域努力的路线图。这一奖项反映了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 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.