Satisficing Leads to Cooperation in Mutual Interests Games

Bacterial cooperation leads to heteroresistance

By challenging E. coli with sublethal norfloxacin for 10 days, Henry Lee and James Collins suggests the bacterial altruism leads to the population-wide resistance. By detailedly analyzing experiment data, we suggest that bacterial cooperation leads to population-wide resistance under norfloxacin pressure and simultaneously propose the bacteria shield is the possible feedback mechanism of less r...

Satisficing Games: Moving Beyond Individual Rationality

Von Neumann-Morgenstern game theory is the multi-agent instantiation of individual rationality and is the standard for decision-making in group settings. Individual rationality, however, requires each player to optimize its own performance regardless of the effect so doing has on the other players, and does not accommodate a definitive notion of group preference. By replacing the demand for doi...

Satisficing and Learning Cooperation in the Prisoner s Dilemma

Cooperation in Stochastic Games

The aim of this study is to explore the phenomenon of cooperative learning in multiple agent stochastic game of Keepout. We intend to investigate whether for a given number of reinforcement learning agents, can cooperative agents outperform independent agents who do not communicate during learning. In that regard, we would like to work towards quantifying the benefits of cooperation in differen...

Reputation-based mutual selection rule promotes cooperation in spatial threshold public goods games

Most previous studies involving public goods games are investigated under a simplifying assumption that participation is either compulsive or unidirectional optional in collective interactions. Nevertheless, how the mutual selection rule, a more realistic participation mode, affects the evolution of cooperation in structured populations is still unclear. Here we introduce a reputation-based mut...