The Effect of Agreements in a Game with Multiple Strategies for Cooperation

Pedro Mariano and Luís Correia

{plm,lc}@di.fct.unl.pt, Informatics Department, New University of Lisbon
Quinta da Torre, 2829 - 516 CAPARICA, Portugal

Abstract:

We present a model suited not only for the study of evolution of cooperation  but also to study behaviours such as treason and exploitation. This game has multiple Pareto Optimal  solutions, which causes shifts in the agent strategies that we can interpret as either treason or exploitation. This requires some form of coordination between agents to avoid penalising behaviours. We present results of our game with and without an agreement model. We show that our game provides rich evolutionary dynamics.



Russell Standish
2002-11-13