no code implementations • 11 Jul 2019 • Marcos Cardinot, Colm O'Riordan, Josephine Griffith, Attila Szolnoki
It is generally believed that in a situation where individual and collective interests are in conflict, the availability of optional participation is a key mechanism to maintain cooperation.
no code implementations • 25 Nov 2018 • Marcos Cardinot, Josephine Griffith, Colm O'Riordan, Matjaz Perc
Research has shown that the addition of abstention as an option transforms social dilemmas to rock-paper-scissor type games, where defectors dominate cooperators, cooperators dominate abstainers (loners), and abstainers (loners), in turn, dominate defectors.
3 code implementations • 25 Nov 2018 • Marcos Cardinot, Colm O'Riordan, Josephine Griffith, Matjaž Perc
Agent-based modeling and network science have been used extensively to advance our understanding of emergent collective behavior in systems that are composed of a large number of simple interacting individuals or agents.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2017 • Marcos Cardinot, Josephine Griffith, Colm O'Riordan
Heterogeneity has been studied as one of the most common explanations of the puzzle of cooperation in social dilemmas.
no code implementations • 28 Apr 2017 • Marcos Cardinot, Colm O'Riordan, Josephine Griffith
This paper explores the Coevolutionary Optional Prisoner's Dilemma (COPD) game, which is a simple model to coevolve game strategy and link weights of agents playing the Optional Prisoner's Dilemma game.
no code implementations • 19 Sep 2016 • Marcos Cardinot, Colm O'Riordan, Josephine Griffith
In this paper, the Optional Prisoner's Dilemma game in a spatial environment, with coevolutionary rules for both the strategy and network links between agents, is studied.
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2016 • Marcos Cardinot, Maud Gibbons, Colm O'Riordan, Josephine Griffith
This paper presents research comparing the effects of different environments on the outcome of an extended Prisoner's Dilemma, in which agents have the option to abstain from playing the game.
