Spatial N-player Dilemmas in Changing Environments

In recent work it has been shown that, given the presence of a community structure in a population of agents, cooperation can be a robust outcome for agents participating in an N-player social dilemma. Through the use of simple imitative learning, cooperation can spread and be the dominant robust be...

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Published inResearch and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIV pp. 381 - 386
Main Authors O’Riordan, Colm, Curran, Dara, Sorensen, Humphrey
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published London Springer London 2008
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ISBN9781848000933
1848000936
DOI10.1007/978-1-84800-094-0_31

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Summary:In recent work it has been shown that, given the presence of a community structure in a population of agents, cooperation can be a robust outcome for agents participating in an N-player social dilemma. Through the use of simple imitative learning, cooperation can spread and be the dominant robust behaviour. In this paper, we show that such cooperation can exist in the presence of noise and that persistent small levels of noise can allow the population to adapt suitably to dramatic changes in the environment.
ISBN:9781848000933
1848000936
DOI:10.1007/978-1-84800-094-0_31