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Title: |
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Simulation Model Of Scientists As Utility-Driven Agents |
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Authors: |
Melanie Baier |
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(2012).ECMS
2012 Proceedings edited by: K. G. Troitzsch, M. Moehring, U. Lotzmann. European
Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2012 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-4-3 26th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Shaping reality through simulation Koblenz,
Germany, May 29 – June 1 2012 |
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Citation
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ABaier, M. (2012). A Simulation Model Of
Scientists As Utility-Driven Agents. ECMS 2012 Proceedings edited by: K. G. Troitzsch, M. Moehring, U. Lotzmann (pp. 683-689).
European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2012-0683-0689 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2012-0683-0689 |
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Abstract: |
Agent-based
simulations of science that account for the linkage between micro-level
behavior of scientists and macro-level results of scientific competition are rather
scarce. The approach of this simulation model is to link the motivation and
behavior of scientists to knowledge growth and scientific innovations via the
emergence of new knowledge fields. A new knowledge field is con- sidered both to be a result of scientific competition and
a representation of scientific advancement. This paper takes a closer look at
the scientists’ motivation and how they coordinate and add to scientific
progress as utility- driven agents. Accounting for stylized facts of scientific
competition, selected simulation results show how deep the processes of
knowledge generation, reputation and scientific innovations are intertwined.
As scientists are assumed to be of different utility types and have differ- ent aspiration levels, this approach is able to account
for adaptive behavior of agents. |
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