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Influence of strategy continuity on cooperation in spatial prisoner’s dilemma games with migrating players

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Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences

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The phenomenon of cooperation is prevalent in both nature and human society. In this paper a simulative model is developed to examine how the strategy continuity influences cooperation in the spatial prisoner’s games in which the players migrate through the success-driven migration mechanism. Numerical simulations illustrate that the strategy continuity promotes cooperation at a low rate of migration, while impeding cooperation when the migration rate is higher. The influence of strategy continuity is also dependent on the game types. Through a more dynamic analysis, the different effects of the strategy continuity at low and high rates of migration are explained by the formation, expansion, and extinction of the self-assembled clusters of “partial- cooperators” within the gaming population.

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  1. Institute of Systems Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, Liaoning, China

    Xiaowei Zhao & Haoxiang Xia

  2. School of Software Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116620, Liaoning, China

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Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61702076, 71371040, 71533001, 71371040), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT17RW131)

Biography: ZHAO Xiaowei, female, Ph.D. candidate, research direction: complex systems and multi-agent systems.

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Zhao, X., Xia, H. Influence of strategy continuity on cooperation in spatial prisoner’s dilemma games with migrating players. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 23, 1–8 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-018-1287-0

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