Emergence of Kin Habitats and Cooperation in Multi-Agent Environments
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چکیده
What drives seemingly sellsh individuals in multi-agent systems to cooperate with each other? Our answer to the question is \kin preference." Kin preference helps to establish \habitats" that are composed of kin in population of rational agents. These habitats are resistant to invasion of enemies { that is, of non-kin. Results show the importance of kin preference in promoting cooperation and suggest kin preference may be used in many diierent domains to promote cooperation. The notion of kin in this study is not limited to biological resemblance; any common characteristics of two given individuals, such as religious preferences, native languages, height of the individuals, etc., can deene kinship relationships.
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