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A computational model of team assembly in emerging scientific fields

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Alina Lungeanu,

Sophia Sullivan,

Noshir S. ContractorAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference

Pages 4057 - 4068

Published: 06 December 2015 Publication History

Abstract

This paper examines the assembly of interdisciplinary teams in emerging scientific fields. We develop and validate a hybrid systems dynamics and agent-based computational model using data over a 15 year period from the assembly of teams in the emerging scientific field of Oncofertility. We found that, when a new field emerges, team assembly is influenced by the reputation and seniority of the researchers, prior collaborators, prior collaborators' collaborators, and the prior popularity of an individual as a collaborator by all others. We also found that individuals are more likely to assemble into an Oncofertility team when there is a modicum of overlap across its global ecosystem of teams; the ecosystem is defined as the collection of teams that share members with other teams that share members with the Oncofertility team.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3106078.3106085

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Collins AFrydenlund E(2018)Strategic group formation in agent-based simulationSimulation10.1177/003754971773240894:3(179-193)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1177/0037549717732408
Collins AVernon-Bido DLane J(2017)Individual strategic behavior in a team formation agent-based simulationProceedings of the Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium10.5555/3106078.3106085(1-10)Online publication date: 23-Apr-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3106078.3106085

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