Interactive system for negotiations on allocation of research funds

Abstract The-paper is concerned with an interactive system making it possible to apply some auction procedures for the purpose of assigning research teams to given projects necessary for the realization of a research program. At each stage of this procedure the head of every research team has to make a decision on the assignment of his workers. It is assumed that the strategy of research teams heads consists in maximization of the average time-discounted income per worker. The proposed system of interactions among the research teams heads provides a possibility of reaching the consensus in the matter of assignment of research workers to particular projects. Simultanously, it makes possible to solve the problem of research funds allocation. Such a system can be considered as a multiperson game of Nash type with the constant sum of the players payments. The presented interactive procedure makes use of some results obtained in the course of experiments in making social choice.