Evolution of cooperation and trust in an N-player social dilemma game with tags for migration decisions
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Evolution of cooperation N-player games Migration Trust Tags
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2022-05-11Referencia bibliográfica
Dhakal S... [et al.]. 2022 Evolution of cooperation and trust in an N-player social dilemma game with tags for migration decisions. R. Soc. Open Sci. 9: 212000. [https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.212000]
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Australian Government; Department of Industry, Innovation and ScienceResumen
We present an evolutionary game model that integrates the
concept of tags, trust and migration to study how trust in social
and physical groups influence cooperation and migration
decisions. All agents have a tag, and they gain or lose trust in
other tags as they interact with other agents. This trust in
different tags determines their trust in other players and groups.
In contrast to other models in the literature, our model does not
use tags to determine the cooperation/defection decisions of the
agents, but rather their migration decisions. Agents decide
whether to cooperate or defect based purely on social learning
(i.e. imitation from others). Agents use information about tags
and their trust in tags to determine how much they trust a
particular group of agents and whether they want to migrate to
that group. Comprehensive experiments show that the model
can promote high levels of cooperation and trust under different
game scenarios, and that curbing the migration decisions of
agents can negatively impact both cooperation and trust in the
system.We also observed that trust becomes scarce in the system
as the diversity of tags increases. This work is one of the first to
study the impact of tags on trust in the system and migration
behaviour of the agents using evolutionary game theory.