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Self-Organizing Social Systems : = Boundaries of Cooperation and Coordination.

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Title/Author:	Self-Organizing Social Systems :/
Reminder of title:	Boundaries of Cooperation and Coordination.
Author:	Fulker, Zachary.
Description:	1 online resource (149 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-10A.
Subject:	Applied mathematics. -
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ISBN:	9798382221588

Self-Organizing Social Systems : = Boundaries of Cooperation and Coordination.
Fulker, Zachary.

Self-Organizing Social Systems :Boundaries of Cooperation and Coordination. - 1 online resource (149 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northeastern University, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

Networked problem solving underlies the formative dynamics of a variety of complex systems. In this setting it is important to consider not just what network ties exist, but how ties change over time, and the influence this has on the behavior and exchange facilitated by these interactions. Ranging from cellular communication to human organization, collectives engage in goal-oriented behavior and adapt to maximize their rewards. When considering a network tie between two problem solvers, optimal group-level outcomes often depend on two overarching concepts: cooperation and coordination. The first two projects of this dissertation use stylized models of networked problem solvers to demonstrate how preferential interaction (i.e., adapting network ties to maximize individual rewards) can lead to distinct system dynamics. In one setting, preferential interaction is shown to harm cooperative prosocial behaviors, while in the other it promotes coordination and robustness. The first agent-based model demonstrates the conditions under which spiteful behavior could emerge. Spite is a behavior that harms both the actor and recipient, and therefore its emergence is evolutionarily counterintuitive. The model demonstrates that if agents are able to interact preferentially, spiteful behavior can gain a relative advantage and become the norm in a population. A second agent-based model examines the formation of signaling conventions under preferential interaction. This is the first model to demonstrate agents' use of a novel form of signaling, where communicating partners failed to reach a consensus on the meaning of each signal. Instead, agents solved the signaling problem by using the network structure to ensure two distinct types of complementary signaling strategies interacted. Finally, the third project reports on an online survey and experiment conducted on an online labor market platform. This project examines the psychological willingness of freelancers to cooperate in temporary teams, and how our results can inform platform design aimed at strengthening the social ties between freelancers. Our results suggest that our freelance participants display traits that are more consistent with belonging to a shared, coherent group than would be expected given existing theory. Overall, the chapters of this dissertation consider self-organization in game theoretic and real-world settings, and show how emergent behaviors are influenced type of relational links that form.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798382221588Subjects--Topical Terms:

1069907
Applied mathematics.
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Agent-based modelingIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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