Cooperation in an Adaptive Network

M. G. Zimmermann, V. M. Eguíluz (), M. San Miguel and A. Spadaro
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M. G. Zimmermann: Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados IMEDEA(CSIC-UIB), E07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
V. M. Eguíluz: Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados IMEDEA(CSIC-UIB), E07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
M. San Miguel: Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados IMEDEA(CSIC-UIB), E07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
A. Spadaro: Department of Economics and Business, Universitat de les Illes Balears, E07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2000, vol. 03, issue 01n04, 283-297

Abstract: We study the dynamics of a set of agents distributed in the nodes of an adaptive network. Each agent plays with all its neighbors a weak prisoner's dilemma collecting a total payoff. We study the case where the network adapts locally depending on the total payoff of the agents. In the parameter regime considered, a steady state is always reached (strategies and network configuration remain stationary), where co-operation is highly enhanced. However, when the adaptability of the network and the incentive for defection are high enough, we show that a slight perturbation of the steady state induces large oscillations (with cascades) in behavior between the nearly all-defectors state and the all-cooperators outcome.

Keywords: Social organisation; Networks; Game theory; Agent based models; Weak Prisoner's Dilemma (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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