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Scientific journal “Vestnik NSUEM”

2025 year, number 3

GAME-THEORETIC APPROACH TO MODELING RESEARCHERS’ MOBILITY

Tatyana B. Melnikova1, Anatoly V. Sigal2
1Federal state budgetary educational institution of higher education "Plekhanov Russian University of Economics", Sevastopol, Russian Federation
2Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Simferopol, Russian Federation
Keywords: researchers’ mobility, antagonistic game, individual knowledge, joint knowledge, coordination games, anti-coordination games

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.