Evolution of egoism on semi-directed and undirected Barabási-Albert networks

F. W. S. Lima ()
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F. W. S. Lima: DietrichStauffer Computational Physics Lab, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Piauí, 64049-550,Teresina-PI, Brazil

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2015, vol. 26, issue 12, 1-9

Abstract: Through Monte Carlo simulations, we study the evolution of the four strategies: Ethnocentric, altruistic, egoistic and cosmopolitan in one community of individuals. Interactions and reproduction among computational agents are simulated on undirected and semi-directed Barabási–Albert (BA) networks. We study the Hammond–Axelrod (HA) model on undirected and semi-directed BA networks for the asexual reproduction case. With a small modification in the traditional HA model, our simulations showed that egoism wins, differently from other results found in the literature where ethnocentric strategy is common. Here, mechanisms such as reciprocity are absent.

Keywords: Monte Carlo simulation; complex networks; in-group favoritism; egoism; agent-based model; evolutionary model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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