Award Abstract #0215738
Development of a Spatial-Experimental Laboratory for Research and Policy Analysis Related to Complex Systems

NSF Org:	BCS Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
Initial Amendment Date:	August 16, 2002
Latest Amendment Date:	August 16, 2002
Award Number:	0215738
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	John E. Yellen BCS Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences SBE Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
Start Date:	August 15, 2002
Expires:	July 31, 2008 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$847874
Investigator(s):	Elinor Ostrom ostrom@indiana.edu (Principal Investigator) James Walker (Co-Principal Investigator) Robert Huckfeldt (Co-Principal Investigator) Jerome Busemeyer (Co-Principal Investigator) Tom Evans (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Indiana University P O Box 1847 Bloomington, IN 47402 812/855-0516
NSF Program(s):	MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION
Field Application(s):
Program Reference Code(s):	OTHR, 0000
Program Element Code(s):	1189

ABSTRACT

This proposal aims to develop a unique combination of state-of-the-art spatial, visualization, and experimental capabilities within a behavioral science research laboratory facility at Indiana University. The laboratory will be multi-purpose, with a focus on understanding complex systems at multiple temporal and geographic scales. It will contribute to both research and instruction. The laboratory will enable the development of new capabilities for spatially organized agent-based modeling, three-dimensional (3-D) visualization of social systems, multi-user 3-D virtual desktop worlds, as well as the implementation of behavioral experiments and GIS technologies in social science research. The research group proposing this set of development activities is multi-disciplinary with strong records of field and laboratory research in anthropology, economics, geography, information science, political science, and psychology. An important aspect of the proposed laboratory facility is to provide the infrastructure for fostering stronger linkages among the researchers involved in this proposal. It will create opportunities for enlarging the community of scholars and students at Indiana University interested in frontier social science that incorporates spatial attributes of decision environments important for understanding human and biological dimensions of social, political, and economic decision making. The laboratory will enable faculty and students to participate in the testing of current social science theories with computer-simulated, agent-based systems as well as the tools of laboratory decision-making experiments in controlled environments. Based on the research conducted in this laboratory, we hope to develop new theories of how complex individual interactions over space and time lead to emergent properties in complex social-ecological systems.

The proposed laboratory will facilitate the productivity and breadth of several ongoing and future activities: (1) a recently funded biocomplexity project integrating agent-based modeling, laboratory experiments, and GIS technologies into the study of complex land-use decisions and emergent land-use patterns; (2) research on networks of political communication related to the accessibility of political attitudes, orientations, and judgments; (3) investigation of resource allocation decision making under risk and uncertainty; (4) multi-agent experiments in the laboratory, in the field, and at multiple sites; (5) the incorporation of GIS technologies into social science research integrating key incentive and outcome effects; (6) creation of artificial 3-D environments for experimental research and policy applications; (7) paleoanthropological research on human evolution; (8) international relations; and (9) education and outreach.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Ahn T. K., Myunsuk Lee, Lore Ruttan, James Walker.  "Asymmetric Payoffs in Simultaneous and Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma Games,"  Public Choice,  v.132,  2007,  p. 353.

Evans, Tom P. and Steven M. Manson.  "Space, Complexity, and Agent-Based Modeling,"  Environment and Planning B,  v.34(2),  2007,  p. 196.

Evans, Tom P., and Hugh Kelley.  "Assessing the Transition from Deforestation to Forest Regrowth with an Agent-Based Model of Land-Cover Change for South-Central Indiana (USA),"  Geoforum,  v.39(2),  2008,  p. 819.

Evans, Tom P., Wenjie Sun, and Hugh Kelley.  "Spatially Explicit Experiments for the Exploration of Land-Use Decision-Making Dynamics,"  International Journal of Geographic Information Science,  v.20(9),  2006,  p. 1013.

Goldstone, Robert L., M. E. Roberts, and T. M. Gureckis.  "Emergent Processes in Group Behavior,"  Current Directions in Psychological Science,  v.17,  2008,  p. 10.

Janssen, Marco A., Michael L. Schoon, Weimao Ke, and Katy Börner.  "Scholarly Networks on Resilience, Vulnerability and Adaptation within the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change,"  Global Environmental Change,  v.16(3),  2005,  p. 240.

Manson, Steven M., and Tom P. Evans.  "Agent-Based Modeling of Deforestation in Southern Yucatán, Mexico, and Reforestation in the Midwest United States,"  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,  v.104(52),  2007,  p. 20678.

Ostrom, Elinor.  "The Value-Added of Laboratory Experiments for the Study of Institutions and Common-Pool Resources,"  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,  v.61(2),  2006,  p. 149.

Ostrom, Elinor.  "Converting Threats into Opportunities,"  PS: Political Science & Politics,  v.39(1),  2006,  p. 3.

Ostrom, Elinor.  "A Diagnostic Approach for Going beyond Panaceas,"  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,  v.104(39),  2007,  p. 15181.

Ostrom, Elinor, and Harini Nagendra.  "Insights on Linking Forests, Trees, and People from the Air, on the Ground, and in the Laboratory,"  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United State of America,  v.103(51),  2006,  p. 19224.

Yechiam, Eldad, and David V. Budescu.  "The Sensitivity of Probability Assessments to Time Units and Performer Characteristics,"  Decision Analysis,  v.3(3),  2006,  p. 177.

Yechiam, Eldad, and Jerome R. Busemeyer.  "The Effect of Forgone Payoffs on Underweighting Small Probability Events,"  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making,  v.19(1),  2006,  p. 1.


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