An Introduction to the KAPSARC Toolkit for Behavioral Analysis (KTAB)

About the ProjectKAPSARC is developing the KAPSARC Toolkit for Behavioral Analysis (KTAB), an open source software platform, to support modeling and analysis of collective decision making processes (CDMPs). KTAB is intended to be the standard platform for analyzing bargaining problems, generalized voting models, and policy decision making. It is our intent to use KTAB to assemble the building blocks for a broad class of CDMPs. Typical models in KTAB will draw on the insights of subject matter experts regarding decision makers and influencers in a methodical, consistent manner; and then assist researchers to identify feasible outcomes that are the result of CDMPs.SummaryKTAB is freely available, state-of-the-art software that has been designed to enable the rigorous and systematic analysis of Collective Decision Making Processes (CDMPs). KTAB is being designed with three types of users in mind. The program code is available directly for computer programmers. Power users will be able to construct their own specific models based on the existing structure, and applied users will be able to access pre-built models through a simple graphical user interface. Collective decision making processes are those in which a group of individual actors interact to arrive at a single decision. Common examples include the deliberations of corporate boards. These processes have usually been studied in a purely qualitative fashion, but there is a growing body of evidence which suggests that computer models can deliver additional insights. KTAB is being designed to unlock these additional insights for a broader range of analysts, but its release is also hoped to extend the awareness of computer models as a route to the investigation of CDMPs, and to prompt a wider acceptance and uptake of a quantitative approach to such analyses.

关于项目KAPSARC正在开发KAPSARC行为分析工具包（KTAB），这是一个开源的软件平台，旨在支持集体决策过程（CDMPs）的建模与分析。KTAB旨在成为分析谈判问题、广义投票模型和政策决策的标准平台。我们的目标是利用KTAB构建一类广泛的CDMPs的基本模块。KTAB中的典型模型将系统性地、一致性地借鉴领域专家关于决策者和影响因素的见解；并协助研究人员识别CDMPs的可行结果。摘要KTAB是一款免费的高级软件，专为进行集体决策过程（CDMPs）的严格和系统分析而设计。KTAB的设计考虑了三种类型的用户。程序代码直接向计算机程序员开放。高级用户将能够基于现有结构构建自己的特定模型，而应用用户则可以通过简单的图形用户界面访问预构建的模型。集体决策过程是指一群个体演员相互作用以达成单一决策的过程。常见的例子包括公司董事会的审议。这些过程通常以纯定性方式进行研究，但越来越多的证据表明，计算机模型可以提供额外的洞察。KTAB被设计用来为更广泛的分析师解锁这些额外的洞察，同时其发布也希望扩大计算机模型作为研究CDMPs途径的知名度，并促进对这些分析的定量方法的更广泛接受和采用。