Non-Exclusive Conventions and Social Coordination

Types of coordination via conventions

Rational Coordination with no Communication or Conventions

We study pure coordination games where in every outcome, all players have identical payoffs, ‘win’ or ‘lose’. We identify and discuss a range of ‘purely rational principles’ guiding the reasoning of rational players in such games and analyze which classes of coordination games can be solved by such players with no preplay communication or conventions. We observe that it is highly nontrivial to ...

Social Learning and Coordination Conventions in Inter-Generational Games: An Experiment in Lamarckian Evolutionary Dynamics

This is a paper on the creation and evolution of conventions of behavior in ”inter-generational games”. In these games a sequence of nonoverlapping ”generations” of players play a stage game for a finite number of periods and are then replaced by other agents who continue the game in their role for an identical length of time. Players in generation t are allowed to see the history of the game p...

Social Learning and Coordination Conventions in Inter-Generational Games: An Experimental Study

This is a paper on the creation and evolution of conventions of behavior in ”inter-generational games”. In these games a sequence of nonoverlapping ”generations” of players play a stage game for a finite number of periods and are then replaced by other agents who continue the game in their role for an identical length of time. Players in generation t are allowed to see the history of the game p...

Social Conventions in Collaborative Tagging

With the increasing popularity of online collaborative tagging services, the study of user tagging behavior is of significant interest. A model of vocabulary evolution is described from the literature, re-interpreted using game theoretic concepts, and tested via simulation. Refinements are motivated in view of the nature of collaborative tagging and in light of recent analyses of real-world col...