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Game-theoretic approach to modeling researchers’ mobility
https://doi.org/10.34020/2073-6495-2025-3-150-170
Abstract
The article considers game-theoretic modeling of researchers’ mobility between cities of own country. Two simple game-theoretic models are constructed. The first model characterizes the decision-making process of a researcher regarding the location of his activity by assessing the probability of success of such activity in conditions of individual or group participation, and is an antagonistic (matrix) game. The second model takes into account the interaction of researchers in a group, expressed through comparison of changes in individual and joint knowledge. Different professional and quantitative composition of researchers in cities generates multiple equilibria, characteristic of coordination and anti-coordination games. The problem of choosing the best Nash equilibrium is proposed to be solved using an additional parameter: the degree of possibility of continuing a scientific topic that was conducted in the city of departure. It is revealed that differences in the degree of such possibilities between cities can form the priority of researchers’ movement.
About the Authors
T. B. Melnikova
Sevastopol branch of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Melnikova Tatyana B., Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Management
Sevastopol
A. V. Sigal
Vernadsky Crimean Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sigal Anatoly V., Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor of the Department of Business Informatics and Mathematical Modeling
Simferopol, Republic of Crimea
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Melnikova T.B., Sigal A.V. Game-theoretic approach to modeling researchers’ mobility. Vestnik NSUEM. 2025;(3):150-170. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.34020/2073-6495-2025-3-150-170
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