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Win-stay-lose-learn promotes cooperation in the prisoner’s dilemma game with voluntary participation

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: Voluntary participation, demonstrated to be a simple yet effective mechanism to promote persistent cooperative behavior, has been extensively studied. It has also been verified that the aspiration-based win-stay-lose-learn strategy updating rule promotes the evolution of cooperation. Inspired by this well-known fact, we combine the Win-Stay-Lose-Learn updating rule with voluntary participation: Players maintain their strategies when they are satisfied, or players attempt to imitate the strategy of one randomly chosen neighbor. We find that this mechanism maintains persistent cooperative behavior, even further promotes the evolution of cooperation under certain conditions.

Source: PLoS ONE

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171680

Authors: Chen Chu, Jinzhuo Liu, Chen Shen, Jiahua Jin, Lei Shi

Institutions: Yunnan University of Finance And Economics, Yunnan University, Yunnan Normal University

Language: English

Topic: Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,382

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province