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Scientific Collaboration and Knowledge Production (1.0.0)

A holistic, agent-based model of scientific knowledge production to simulate large-scale collaborative research processes. The model represents the scientific process as a stochastic, cooperative task-completion game where agents repeatedly collaborate on projects that can yield publications.

The model is implemented in Python as an environment in the popular Gymnasium reinforcement learning library.

Release Notes

Scientific Knowledge Production Simulation - Initial Release 0.0.1

Features

  • Run simulations of collaborative scientific projects.
  • Test three predefined policies based on realistic behavioral archetypes found in the literature.
  • Calibrate the simulation to real world data
  • Train multi-agent reinforcement learning policy functions.
  • Inspect resulting outputs

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Scientific Collaboration and Knowledge Production 1.0.0

Submitted by sciknowledgeprod Published Nov 04, 2026 Last modified Nov 04, 2026

A holistic, agent-based model of scientific knowledge production to simulate large-scale collaborative research processes. The model represents the scientific process as a stochastic, cooperative task-completion game where agents repeatedly collaborate on projects that can yield publications.

The model is implemented in Python as an environment in the popular Gymnasium reinforcement learning library.

Release Notes

Scientific Knowledge Production Simulation - Initial Release 0.0.1

Features

  • Run simulations of collaborative scientific projects.
  • Test three predefined policies based on realistic behavioral archetypes found in the literature.
  • Calibrate the simulation to real world data
  • Train multi-agent reinforcement learning policy functions.
  • Inspect resulting outputs

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sciknowledgeprod (2026, November 04). “Scientific Collaboration and Knowledge Production” (Version 1.0.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrieved from: https://www.comses.net/codebases/71c4b000-e7bd-4f05-bf53-b58d3e3dc5b8/releases/1.0.0/

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Contributors
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DOI
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Model Version
1.0.0
License
MIT
Programming Language
Python
Software Framework
Gymnasium
Operating System
Operating System Independent
Publish Date
Wednesday, November 04, 2026
Last Updated
Wednesday, November 04, 2026
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Peer Review
Unreviewed
Version Submitter First published Last modified Status
1.0.0 sciknowledgeprod Wed Nov 4 13:37:06 2026 Wed Nov 4 13:37:08 2026 Published

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