Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
2001-05-02
In ``Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents'', Alan Kirman and Jean-Benoit Zimmermann (Eds.), pp. 73-86, Springer (20
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
14 pages; to appear in ``Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents'', Alan Kirman and Jean-Benoit Zimmermann (Eds.), for
Scientific paper
A generic property of biological, social and economical networks is their ability to evolve in time, creating and suppressing interactions. We approach this issue within the framework of an adaptive network of agents playing a Prisoner's Dilemma game, where each agent plays with its local neighbors, collects an aggregate payoff and imitates the strategy of its best neighbor. We allow the agents to adapt their local neighborhood according to their satisfaction level and the strategy played. We show that a steady state is reached, where the strategy and network configurations remain stationary. While the fraction of cooperative agents is high in these states, their average payoff is lower than the one attained by the defectors. The system self-organizes in such a way that the structure of links in the network is quite inhomogeneous, revealing the occurrence of cooperator ``leaders'' with a very high connectivity, which guarantee that global cooperation can be sustained in the whole network. Perturbing the leaders produces drastic changes of the network, leading to global dynamical cascades. These cascades induce a transient oscillation in the population of agents between the nearly all-defectors state and the all-cooperators outcome, before setting again in a state of high global cooperation.
Eguiluz Victor M.
Miguel Maxi San
Zimmermann Martin G.
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