Conference proceeding
From Communication to Collaboration: Simulating the Emergence of Inter-organizational Collaboration Network
2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing, pp.413-418
08/2010
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom.2010.66
Abstract
Inter-organizational networks often have multiple dimensions, each one denoting a type of relationship. In this research, we studied how one dimension of the network, a collaboration network, emerges from organizations' interaction on another dimension--the communication network. We modeled the emergence of collaboration as an event-based multi-agent team formation process that incorporates the structure of the underlying communication network, the diffusion of project information, and network-based influence. As a case study, we used an agent-based simulation to study the collaboration among humanitarian organizations. We also analyzed how changes to the communication network among humanitarian organizations affect their collaboration network. The experiment results suggest that different strategies to promote communication may have positive or negative impacts on the future collaboration network.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- From Communication to Collaboration: Simulating the Emergence of Inter-organizational Collaboration Network
- Creators
- Kang Zhao - Pennsylvania State UniversityJ Yen - Pennsylvania State UniversityL.-M Ngamassi - Pennsylvania State UniversityC Maitland - Pennsylvania State UniversityA Tapia - Pennsylvania State University
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing, pp.413-418
- Publisher
- IEEE
- DOI
- 10.1109/SocialCom.2010.66
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2010
- Academic Unit
- Business Analytics
- Record Identifier
- 9984380416002771
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