Dynamic models of appraisal networks explaining collective learning

W Mei, NE Friedkin, K Lewis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2017ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes models of learning processes in teams of individuals who collectively
execute a sequence of tasks and whose actions are determined by individual skill levels and
networks of interpersonal appraisals and influence. The closely-related proposed models
have increasing complexity, starting with a centralized manager-based assignment and
learning model, and finishing with a social model of interpersonal appraisal, assignments,
learning, and influences. We show how rational optimal behavior arises along the task …
This paper proposes models of learning processes in teams of individuals who collectively execute a sequence of tasks and whose actions are determined by individual skill levels and networks of interpersonal appraisals and influence. The closely-related proposed models have increasing complexity, starting with a centralized manager-based assignment and learning model, and finishing with a social model of interpersonal appraisal, assignments, learning, and influences. We show how rational optimal behavior arises along the task sequence for each model, and discuss conditions of suboptimality. Our models are grounded in replicator dynamics from evolutionary games, influence networks from mathematical sociology, and transactive memory systems from organization science.
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