Attraction and cooperation in space

—This paper presents an attraction mechanism and a study of its behavior in noisy spatial IPD games. The attraction mechanism is coupled with a regular IPD strategy to produce the final agent’s behavior. We study the mechanism in 2D space to understand how it influences the emerging spatial structures. We find that any agent strategy, even a plainly irrational one, may become stable in a spatial game given appropriate attraction relations with the neighbors. Also, often the removal of attraction after stabilization causes no

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CEC
• Authors: Elpida Tzafestas
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Attraction Mechanism, CEC 2007, Noisy Spatial Ipd, Regular Ipd Strategy