Modeling Synergy Effects Considering Both Positive and Negative Factors Between Participants

Modeling synergy effects to measure the effectiveness of collaboration is a meaningful and important issue. However, there are only few previous works quantifying collaborative effects. Further, previous models consider only positive effects regardless of potential disharmonious factors which are common in real world. In this paper, a mathematical formulation measuring synergy effects which takes both positive and negative effects into consideration is introduced. Implications and comparisons between proposed model and a wildly applied model, Cobb-Douglas function, are also proposed in simulation results.

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