TY - GEN
T1 - Emergence of cooperation in N-player games on small world networks
AU - O'Riordan, Colm
AU - Cunningham, Alan
AU - Sorensen, Humphrey
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The emergence of cooperation in social dilemmas has been addressed in a number of fields. In this paper, we illustrate how robust cooperation can emerge among a population of agents participating in a N-player dilemma when the agents are spatially arranged on a graph exhibiting small world properties. We present a graph structure with a high level of community structure, small diameter and a variance in the node degree distribution. We show that with simple learning rules, robust cooperation emerges. We also show that a population of agents whose interactions are constrained by such a graph can adapt to dramatic environmental changes.
AB - The emergence of cooperation in social dilemmas has been addressed in a number of fields. In this paper, we illustrate how robust cooperation can emerge among a population of agents participating in a N-player dilemma when the agents are spatially arranged on a graph exhibiting small world properties. We present a graph structure with a high level of community structure, small diameter and a variance in the node degree distribution. We show that with simple learning rules, robust cooperation emerges. We also show that a population of agents whose interactions are constrained by such a graph can adapt to dramatic environmental changes.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/78650450521
M3 - Conference Publication
AN - SCOPUS:78650450521
SN - 9780262750172
T3 - Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008
SP - 436
EP - 442
BT - Artificial Life XI
T2 - 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems: Artificial Life XI, ALIFE 2008
Y2 - 5 August 2008 through 8 August 2008
ER -