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We focus on information sharing in collaboration networks and discuss a feedback model for situational awareness, that combines exogenously given characteristics of nodes with their positioning within the network topology. Here, situational awareness is generally understood to mean “knowing what is going on”, implying the possession of knowledge and understanding to achieve a certain goal. Using this feedback model, we are able to identify the contribution of the network topology to the situational awareness of individual nodes and also to the network as a whole. Moreover, we present two stochastic variations to our model that reflect incentives and choices of the nodes regarding uploading information along links of the network. We finally also discuss a choice mechanism that guides nodes in deciding on the deletion and forming of links in a network. The results presented here may be useful to increase our understanding of the role of social, information and physical networks in complex operations.
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Janssen, R., Monsuur, H. (2010). Networks, Information and Choice. In: Van Deemen, A., Rusinowska, A. (eds) Collective Decision Making. Theory and Decision Library C, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02865-6_14
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