Coordination, Differentiation and Fairness in a Population of Cooperating Agents

Games

Anne-Ly Do¹  Lars Rudolf¹ 

[1] ¹Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, Dresden 01187, Germany ²Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Merchant Venturers Building, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK

关键词: self-organization;    coordination;    snowdrift game;    adaptive network;   

DOI  :  10.3390/g3010030

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

In a recent paper, we analyzed the self-assembly of a complex cooperation network. The network was shown to approach a state where every agent invests the same amount of resources. Nevertheless, highly-connected agents arise that extract extraordinarily high payoffs while contributing comparably little to any of their cooperations. Here, we investigate a variant of the model, in which highly-connected agents have access to additional resources. We study analytically and numerically whether these resources are invested in existing collaborations, leading to a fairer load distribution, or in establishing new collaborations, leading to an even less fair distribution of loads and payoffs.

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