Coordination and cooperation

Coordination, collaboration and cooperation

Policy-directed coordination and cooperation

Modeling such a process requires design decisions about the granularity of the process activities, about the degree of prescription defined within those activities, and about the policies that govern the triggering and termination of the activities and that define the nature of interaction and communication among the programmers evolving the system. Whatever choices are made for these issues, t...

Improving Coordination and Cooperation Through Competition

We use game theory and experimental economics approaches to analyze the relationships between corporate culture and the persistent performance differences among seemingly similar enterprises. First, we show that competition leads to higher minimum effort levels in the minimum effort coordination game. This implies that, organizations with competitive institutional design are more likely to have...

The Link between Agent Coordination and Cooperation

Agent coordination is the ability to manage the interdependencies of activities between agents while agent cooperation is the process used for an agent to voluntarily enter a relationship with another to achieve a system derived goal. We describe and show the concepts of Coordinative Cooperation and Cooperative Coordination using examples. These concepts demonstrate the ability for intelligent ...

Essays on Coordination , Cooperation , and Learning

This thesis is a collection of essays on coordination and learning in dynamic cooperation games. Chapter One begins by establishing results which are required in order to extend the global games approach to settings where the game structure is endogenous. In particular it shows that the selection argument of Carlsson and van Damme (1993) holds uniformly over appropriately controlled families of...