Asynchronous Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma  

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Newth, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Adaptive Behavior vol. 17 no. 2 (Apr. 2009), page 175–183.
Topik: prisoner's dilemma; evolution of cooperation; asynchrony; firm-but-fair
Fulltext: 175.pdf (265.68KB)

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The prisoner’s dilemma is widely accepted as a standard model for studying the emergence of mutual cooperation within populations of selfish individuals. Simulation studies of the prisoner’s dilemma, where players make probabilistic choices based on previous actions, find that strategies such as winstay- lose-shift, tit-for-tat, and firm-but-fair come to dominate the long-term behavior of the population. Often, these models assume that decisions are made in synchrony. In many biological contexts, this is an unrealistic assumption, as individuals change their behavior on different and uncorrelated timescales. Here we develop a model where both, one, or neither of the players can update their behavior at any time. This study demonstrates that as the assumption of synchrony is relaxed, less reactive and more generous strategies such as firm-but-fair dominate the long-term population dynamics.

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