A computational model of team assembly in emerging scientific fields

Alina Lungeanu; Sophia Sullivan; Uri Wilensky; Noshir S. Contractor

doi:10.1109/WSC.2015.7408559

A computational model of team assembly in emerging scientific fields

Alina Lungeanu, Sophia Sullivan, Uri Wilensky, Noshir S. Contractor

Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2015 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	4057-4068
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467397438
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2015.7408559
State	Published - Feb 16 2016
Event	Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015 - Huntington Beach, United States Duration: Dec 6 2015 → Dec 9 2015

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Name	Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
Volume	2016-February
ISSN (Print)	0891-7736

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Other	Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Huntington Beach
Period	12/6/15 → 12/9/15

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Software
Modeling and Simulation
Computer Science Applications

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Lungeanu, A., Sullivan, S., Wilensky, U., & Contractor, N. S. (2016). A computational model of team assembly in emerging scientific fields. In 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015 (pp. 4057-4068). Article 7408559 (Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference; Vol. 2016-February). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2015.7408559

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A computational model of team assembly in emerging scientific fields. / Lungeanu, Alina; Sullivan, Sophia; Wilensky, Uri et al.
2015 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. p. 4057-4068 7408559 (Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference; Vol. 2016-February).

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