Title :
How cooperation arises from rational players?
Author :
Mu, Yifen ; Guo, Lei
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Syst. Sci., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
Abstract :
How to achieve cooperation from rational players is a fundamental problem in various aspects of social and economic systems. In this paper, we present a direct and neat way to lead to cooperation in a dynamical Prisoners´ Dilemma game. In our scenario, the two players are heterogenous and play different roles as the `leader´ and the `follower´ respectively. When the leader is restricted to take the 1-step-memory strategy, it is proved that both the leader and the follower will co-evolve into and stay at the cooperation state (C;C), and the equilibrium strategy turns out to be (Tit f or Tat, ALL C). In this dynamic Stackelberg-alike game, the heterogeneity of the players´ roles and the multi time-scales to improve their strategies are important for cooperation. Related questions for general cases are also investigated.
Keywords :
game theory; 1-step-memory strategy; cooperation state; dynamic Stackelberg-alike game; dynamical prisoners dilemma game; economic systems; equilibrium strategy; rational players; social systems; Games; History; Humans; Lead; Nash equilibrium; Optimization; Thin film transistors;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control (CDC), 2010 49th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7745-6
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2010.5716966