Evolution of Cooperation in N-player Social Dilemmas: The Importance of being Mobile

Josephine Griffith; Colm O'Riordan

doi:http://hdl.handle.net/10379/7387

Evolution of Cooperation in N-player Social Dilemmas: The Importance of being Mobile

Josephine Griffith, Colm O'Riordan

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This paper addresses issues regarding the emergence of cooperation in evolutionary, spatial game-theoretic simulations. In the model considered, agents participate in a social dilemma with their neighbours and have the ability to move in response to environmental stimuli. Both the movement strategies and the game strategies (whether to cooperate or not) are evolved. In particular, we present results that compare the outcomes using the classical two player prisoners dilemma and a generalised N-player prisoners dilemma. We also explore the effect that agent density (the number of agents present per cell in the world) has on the evolution of cooperation in the environment. Finally, we discuss the movement strategies that are evolved for both cooperative and noncooperative strategies.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, VOL 1: ECTA
DOIs	https://doi.org/http://hdl.handle.net/10379/7387
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2016

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Gibbons, MD, O' Riordan, C, Griffith, J.

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