Breakout on Cooperation and Competition

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Breakout on Cooperation and Competition

• Geof Bowker, Fran Berman, Mario Campolargo, Vijay
  Gurbaxani, Paul Watson, James Kinter,
• Suzi Iacono, Erik Hofer

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Characterizing the Problem Space

• Structural challenges in managing cooperation and
  competition
• Setting the rules of the game
• To incentivize collaboration
• To support vision
• To provide reward and penalty mechanisms
• Levels of centralization and decentralization
• Technical and social environments
• Maintaining the Commons
• Recognized/trusted participants

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Characterizing the Problem Space

• Understanding difference across scientific
  domains
• Which fields can leverage each other
• What are characteristics of domains that are good
  targets for early CI projects
• Risk issues
• Providing mechanisms to support/encourage
  high-risk, infrastructure related research
• Allowing failures to be non-catastrophic
• Diffusion stages of CI

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Domain 1 usage
Domain n usage

Innovation
Competitive, higher risk
Emerging InfrastructureResearch, Innovationl
Core Infrastructure StabilityInnovation
Cooperative, slowly evolving
Research --gt Development --gt Deployment
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Issues for NSF

• Ongoing and increasing involvement with grant
  recipients
• From from Police Officer to (Good) Parent
• Move towards partnership model
• Lead effort to set and execute vision
• Developing and funding coordination activities
• Develop a strategy that explicitly accounts for
  investigator rewards/incentives
• Manage / help set expectations regarding the
  roles of capabilities of various domains
• Steward movement of infrastructure through
  development pipeline
• Lead international involvement

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Reflective Practice

• Individual Views
• Discussion
• Distillation for report back to group
• Views and discussion driven by references to
  personal experiences