MOD - Dynamics of Creativity and Innovation in Virtual Scientific Commons

MOD - 虚拟科学共享中的创造力和创新动力

• 批准号: 0830261
• 负责人: Levent Yilmaz
• 金额: $ 31.5万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0830261&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MOD; Dynamics; Creativity; Innovation; Virtual

Scientific communities in cyber-enabled infrastructures are socio-technical innovation systems that exhibit the characteristics of self-organizing complex adaptive systems. Using empirically grounded and conceptually valid agent simulation models of science, the project explores minimal structural and behavioral conditions, that is, the simplest set of assumptions, for the emergence and sustainment of creativity and innovation in Scientific Commons (SCs). The computer-aided ethnography software, called SC Browser, facilitates ethnographic observation of the social and technical networks in communities such as CreativeCommons, Scholarpedia, CollabRX, and OpenWetWare. Inspired by the Actor-Network Theory that focuses on translation networks involving human, symbolic, and physical actors, SC Browser is an advanced analytical tool that aggregates views of interaction among actors and at the same time preserve access to raw research material data sets for qualitative analysis and foundational hypothesis generation to construct computational simulations and to study co-evolution of scientific knowledge, community, and domain practices in the context of systems model of creativity.The simulation study (1) considers the discourse of scientific activity, including the contribution of new knowledge in virtual scientific commons, growth of the domain knowledge, and the clustering of research into specialties, (2) views science as an autonomous and self-regulating socio-cognitive system through the introduction of motivation and competitive nature of knowledge production, and (3) explores the impact of alternative community cultures (e.g., exploration-oriented, service-oriented, and utility-oriented), peer evaluation styles (e.g., centralized, decentralized) on the sustainability and innovation potential of SCs. Besides advancing the socio-technical and cultural understanding of cyber-enabled innovation communities, the project produces an integrated and customizable agent simulation framework, called SciSIM, for science policy mechanism design and decision analysis for virtual scientific communities to improve sustainable innovation. Using SciSim, the project demonstrates how social networks and market mechanisms provide a sound formal basis to study dynamics of scientific communities using reliable and valid structural and organizational climate metrics.Broader Impacts: The project aims to facilitate training of students to develop computational thinking skills in Science and Technology (S&T) studies. As such, this research is expected to advance the state of the art in S&T curriculum via introduction of computational models as pedagogical instruments. Furthermore, the simulation environment and its associated models can be used by NSF administration for use as a computational laboratory for science policy analysis. Along with the findings of earlier work on Open Source Communities, this project aims to derive of common unifying principles innovation in scientific commons and their documentation via a book on the topic of Sustainable Creativity and Innovation in User Innovation Communities.

网络基础设施中的科学界是社会技术创新系统，表现出自组织复杂自适应系统的特征。该项目使用基于经验和概念上有效的科学代理模拟模型，探索最小的结构和行为条件，即最简单的一组假设，以促进科学共享（SC）中创造力和创新的出现和维持。名为 SC Browser 的计算机辅助民族志软件有助于对 CreativeCommons、Scholarpedia、CollabRX 和 OpenWetWare 等社区中的社交和技术网络进行民族志观察。受行动者网络理论（关注涉及人类、符号和物理行动者的翻译网络）的启发，SC 浏览器是一种先进的分析工具，可以聚合行动者之间交互的视图，同时保留对原始研究材料数据集的访问，以进行定性分析。分析和基本假设生成，以构建计算模拟并在创造力系统模型的背景下研究科学知识、社区和领域实践的共同演化。模拟研究（1）考虑科学活动的话语，包括虚拟科学新知识公共性、领域知识的增长以及专业研究的聚集，（2）通过引入知识生产的动机和竞争性，将科学视为一个自主和自我调节的社会认知系统，（3）探索另类社区文化（例如，探索导向、服务导向和效用导向）、同行评估风格（例如，集中式、分散式）对 SC 的可持续性和创新潜力的影响。除了促进对网络创新社区的社会技术和文化理解之外，该项目还生成了一个集成的、可定制的代理模拟框架，称为 SciSIM，用于虚拟科学社区的科学政策机制设计和决策分析，以提高可持续创新。 该项目利用 SciSim 展示了社交网络和市场机制如何为使用可靠且有效的结构和组织气候指标来研究科学界的动态提供了良好的正式基础。 更广泛的影响：该项目旨在促进学生的培训，以培养计算思维技能科学技术（S&T）研究。因此，这项研究预计将通过引入计算模型作为教学工具来推动科技课程的发展。此外，国家科学基金会管理部门可以将模拟环境及其相关模型用作科学政策分析的计算实验室。与开源社区早期工作的发现一起，该项目旨在通过一本关于用户创新社区中的可持续创造力和创新主题的书，得出科学共享及其文档中的共同统一原则创新。