Evolutionary Game Analysis of Participants' Conflict Negotiation in Construction Project

Abstract:

Conflict is an important factor influencing construction management performance. Construction project participants mutual game behavior in the conflict negotiation process is analyzed by KMRW reputation model. Establish imitator dynamic evolution model between general contractor and owner to analyze two evolutionary stable strategies, cooperation and competition in conflict management. It results that adopting cooperative strategy by every participants is the stability foundation to keep the conflict negotiation system evolve to cooperation. And discount rate, excess return, initial investment of cooperative are three major factors affecting evolution of the conflict system. Digital simulation show that initial investment has negative effect on possibility of cooperation; when discount rate is enough large, excess return has positive effect on possibility of cooperation; when discount rate isnt enough large, excess return has negative effect.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 438-439)
• Pages: 1761-1765
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.438-439.1761
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Xin Fu, Xiao Yuan Ren
• Keywords: Conflict Negotiation, Constriction Project, Evolutionary Game

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