Self-Organization Promotes the Evolution of Cooperation with Cultural Propagation

TL;DR

This paper investigates how self-organization influences the evolution of cooperation through three computational models, analyzing parameter impacts and agent adaptation in cultural propagation contexts.

Contribution

It introduces a comparative analysis of three models for cooperation evolution and examines how parameters affect self-organized cooperation.

Findings

Game transitions depend on model parameters

Agents adapt by choosing cooperative attachment

Self-organization facilitates cooperation emergence

Abstract

In this paper three computational models for the study of the evolution of cooperation under cultural propagation are studied: Kin Selection, Direct Reciprocity and Indirect Reciprocity. Two analyzes are reported, one comparing their behavior between them and a second one identifying the impact that different parameters have in the model dynamics. The results of these analyzes illustrate how game transitions may occur depending of some parameters within the models and also explain how agents adapt to these transitions by individually choosing their attachment to a cooperative attitude. These parameters regulate how cooperation can self-organize under different circumstances. The emergence of the evolution of cooperation as a result of the agent's adapting processes is also discussed.