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Getting Contractors to Cooperate

Poster
A poster describing work on a project entitled A Game-Theoretic Approach to Optimizing Acquisition Behaviors
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Subjects

Abstract

Misaligned incentives between contractors and the PMO produce ineffective cooperation, causing wasted effort, lost time, and poor results. Using game theory to frame these situations, and agent-based modelling to quantify them, we can design incentive mechanisms to promote cooperation and improve results.