Does mobility decrease cooperation?

نویسندگان

  • Mendeli H Vainstein
  • Ana T C Silva
  • Jeferson J Arenzon
چکیده

We explore the minimal conditions for sustainable cooperation on a spatially distributed population of memoryless, unconditional strategies (cooperators and defectors) in presence of unbiased, non-contingent mobility in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game. We find that cooperative behavior is not only possible but may even be enhanced by such an "always-move" rule, when compared with the strongly viscous ("never-move") case. In addition, mobility also increases the capability of cooperation to emerge and invade a population of defectors, what may have a fundamental role in the problem of the onset of cooperation.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of theoretical biology

دوره 244 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007