Forms of demographic cooperation in Scandinavia

Zones of cooperation in demographic prisoner's dilemma

The emergence of cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) games is generally assumed to require repeated play (and strategies such as Tit-For-Tat, involving memory of previous interactions) or features ("tags") permitting cooperators and defectors to distinguish one another. In the Demographic Prisoner's Dilemma, neither assumption is made: agents with finite vision move to random sites on a latt...

Reforestation challenges in Scandinavia

In the keynote, major reforestation challenges in Scandinavia will be highlighted. The following countries make up Scandinavia: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. For Iceland, with only a forest cover of 2%, a major reforestation challenge is the deforestation and overgrazing in combination with land degradation and extensive soil erosion. The challenges include the conflicts with li...

Surgical Clinics in Scandinavia

Engaging SMEs in Cooperation and New Forms of Learning

Globalization has strong if contradictory impacts on SMEs. The sharp increase of worldwide competition in recent decades weakened SMEs right across the board. At the same time, globalization offers many new opportunities and the importance of SMEs has increased. Opportunties include the potential to act as collaborators in multi-enterprise consortia, for international clients and partners. Thei...

Population dynamics, demographic stochasticity, and the evolution of cooperation.

A basic evolutionary problem posed by the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game is to understand when the paradigmatic cooperative strategy Tit-for-Tat can invade a population of pure defectors. Deterministically, this is impossible. We consider the role of demographic stochasticity by embedding the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma into a population dynamic framework. Tit-for-Tat can invade a population ...