中国物理B ›› 2010, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (5): 50205-050205.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/19/5/050205

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Adaptive co-evolution of strategies and network leading to optimal cooperation level in spatial prisoner's dilemma game

张季谦1, 陈含爽2, 辛厚文2, 侯中怀3   

  1. (1)College of Physics and Electronic Information, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China; (2)Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China; (3)Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 收稿日期:2009-07-30 修回日期:2009-10-28 出版日期:2010-05-15 发布日期:2010-05-15
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.~20873130), the Graduate Innovation Fund of USTC.

Adaptive co-evolution of strategies and network leading to optimal cooperation level in spatial prisoner's dilemma game

Chen Han-Shuang(陈含爽)a), Hou Zhong-Huai(侯中怀)a)b), Zhang Ji-Qian(张季谦)c), and Xin Hou-Wen(辛厚文)a)   

  1. a Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China; b Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China; c College of Physics and Electronic Information, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China
  • Received:2009-07-30 Revised:2009-10-28 Online:2010-05-15 Published:2010-05-15
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.~20873130), the Graduate Innovation Fund of USTC.

摘要: We study evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game on adaptive networks where a population of players co-evolves with their interaction networks. During the co-evolution process, interacted players with opposite strategies either rewire the link between them with probability $p$ or update their strategies with probability $1-p$ depending on their payoffs. Numerical simulation shows that the final network is either split into some disconnected communities whose players share the same strategy within each community or forms a single connected network in which all nodes are in the same strategy. Interestingly, the density of cooperators in the final state can be maximised in an intermediate range of $p$ via the competition between time scale of the network dynamics and that of the node dynamics. Finally, the mean-field analysis helps to understand the results of numerical simulation. Our results may provide some insight into understanding the emergence of cooperation in the real situation where the individuals' behaviour and their relationship adaptively co-evolve.

Abstract: We study evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game on adaptive networks where a population of players co-evolves with their interaction networks. During the co-evolution process, interacted players with opposite strategies either rewire the link between them with probability $p$ or update their strategies with probability $1-p$ depending on their payoffs. Numerical simulation shows that the final network is either split into some disconnected communities whose players share the same strategy within each community or forms a single connected network in which all nodes are in the same strategy. Interestingly, the density of cooperators in the final state can be maximised in an intermediate range of $p$ via the competition between time scale of the network dynamics and that of the node dynamics. Finally, the mean-field analysis helps to understand the results of numerical simulation. Our results may provide some insight into understanding the emergence of cooperation in the real situation where the individuals' behaviour and their relationship adaptively co-evolve.

Key words: prisoner's dilemma game, adaptive network, co-evolution, cooperation

中图分类号:  (Science and society)

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02.50.Le (Decision theory and game theory) 02.50.Cw (Probability theory) 02.60.Cb (Numerical simulation; solution of equations) 89.75.Hc (Networks and genealogical trees) 87.23.Cc (Population dynamics and ecological pattern formation)