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Interactions giving rise to dilemmas are widespread in society. Starting from the observation that individuals interact through networks of acquaintances, we study the co-evolution of the agents’ strategies and of the social network itself using two prototypical games: the Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Stag Hunt. We find that cooperation and coordination can be achieved through the self-organization of the social network into strong and stable clusters of identical strategies.
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Pestelacci, E., Tomassini, M. (2008). Cooperation in Co-evolving Networks: The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Stag-Hunt Games. In: Rudolph, G., Jansen, T., Beume, N., Lucas, S., Poloni, C. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN X. PPSN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5199. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87700-4_54
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