Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Humanitarian and military organizations face deeply uncertain, continuously changing environments due to disasters and conflict. Information sharing is vital to adapt to these disruptions effectively and ensure the timely availability of essential equipment and supplies anywhere in the world. However, little is known about the role ofinformation sharing in adapting to a changing environment. We use an agent-based discrete-event simulation to study information-sharing mechanisms, specifically delayed information-sharing behavior, and analyze how they impact the adaptation of decision-making structures over time. Drawing upon adaptation models from literature, we develop a model in which agents share information and endogenously create these structures. We experiment with various levels of information delays in dynamically changing environments and assess how this affectsadaptation and performance. Our findings unveil that horizontal delays lead to earlier hierarchical expansion and vertical delays slow decision-making in crisis response environments.
DOI: 10.59297/h0rgwd57
Authors: Yvonne Lont, Jan Kwakkel, Tina Comes
Institution: Delft University of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4410420781