Verification scripts for "The Architecture Premium: A Real Options Framework for Multi-Tier Research Data Infrastructure Systems"

Verification scripts for the numerical analysis presented in “The Architecture Premium: A Real Options Framework for Multi-Tier Research Data Infrastructure Systems,” prepared for submission to Systems (MDPI). The accompanying manuscript is authored by Sung-Seok Ko, Bangwon Ko, and Yong Hee Han. No empirical dataset was created or analyzed in the study. This record contains five Python scripts that reproduce the manuscript’s Monte Carlo robustness checks, worked structural-consistency examples, alternative parameter inversion, and two-period state-transition extension. The scripts use the parameter values reported in the manuscript. Random seeds are fixed in the Monte Carlo scripts, and the deterministic scripts include explicit numerical checks. Small differences between the archived Monte Carlo output and selected manuscript statistics are confined to the final reported digit and reflect Monte Carlo seed variation; both sets of values are documented in README.md. The archived code is distributed under the MIT License.