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The finitely repeated Prisoners' Dilemma is a good illustration of the discrepancy between the strategic behaviour suggested by a game-theoretic analysis and the behaviour often observed among human players, where cooperation is maintained…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-10 Kristian Lindgren , Vilhelm Verendel

We study the evolutionary robustness of strategies in infinitely repeated prisoners' dilemma games in which players make mistakes with a small probability and are patient. The evolutionary process we consider is given by the replicator…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Pedro Dal Bó , Enrique R. Pujals

Iterated games provide a framework to describe social interactions among groups of individuals. Recent work stimulated by the discovery of "zero-determinant" strategies has rapidly expanded our ability to analyze such interactions. This…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-12 Alexander J. Stewart , Todd L. Parsons , Joshua B. Plotkin

Evolutionary game theory assumes that players replicate a highly scored player's strategy through genetic inheritance. However, when learning occurs culturally, it is often difficult to recognize someone's strategy just by observing the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-01 Minjae Kim , Jung-Kyoo Choi , Seung Ki Baek

The emergence of mutual cooperation is studied in a spatially extended evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game in which the players are located on the sites of cubic lattices for dimensions d=1, 2, and 3. Each player can choose one of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gyorgy Szabo , Tibor Antal , Peter Szabo , Michel Droz

In this paper, we consider a two-player two-strategy game with random payoffs in a population subdivided into $d$ demes, each containing $N$ individuals at the beginning of any given generation and experiencing local extinction and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-02 Dhaker Kroumi , Sabin Lessard

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of the discrete-time exponential-weights dynamic with a constant step size on all general-sum and symmetric $2 \times 2$ normal-form games, i.e. games with $2$ pure strategies per player, and where the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Guanghui Wang , Krishna Acharya , Lokranjan Lakshmikanthan , Juba Ziani , Vidya Muthukumar

Evolutionary prisoner's dilemma games are studied with players located on square lattice and random regular graphs defining four neighbors for each one. The players follow one of the three strategies: tit-for-tat, unconditional cooperation,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc , Gyorgy Szabo

We present insights and empirical results from an extensive numerical study of the evolutionary dynamics of the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Fixation probabilities for Moran processes are obtained for all pairs of 164 different strategies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Vincent Knight , Marc Harper , Nikoleta E. Glynatsi , Owen Campbell

Researchers have explored the performance of Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma strategies for decades, from the celebrated performance of Tit for Tat to the introduction of the zero-determinant strategies and the use of sophisticated learning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Nikoleta E. Glynatsi , Vincent Knight , Marc Harper

Evolutionary game theory studies populations that change in response to an underlying game. Often, the functional form relating outcome to player attributes or strategy is complex, preventing mathematical progress. In this work, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pablo Lechon-Alonso , Andrew Dennehy , Ruizheng Bai , Nicolas Sanchez , Derek K. Wise , David Sewell , David Rosenbluth , Alexander Strang

An oligopoly is a market in which the price of goods is controlled by a few firms. Cournot introduced the simplest game-theoretic model of oligopoly, where profit-maximizing behavior of each firm results in market failure. Furthermore, when…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-09 Masahiko Ueda , Shoma Yagi , Genki Ichinose

Spatial evolutionary games are studied with myopic players whose payoff interest, as a personal character, is tuned from selfishness to other-regarding preference via fraternity. The players are located on a square lattice and collect…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Gyorgy Szabo , Attila Szolnoki

In an iterated two-person game, for instance prisoner's dilemma or the snowdrift game, there exist strategies that force the payoffs of the opponents to be equal. These equalizer strategies form a subset of the more general zero-determinant…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-01 Assaf Engel , Alexander Feigel

Evolutionary games are studied where the teaching activity of players can evolve in time. Initially all players following either the cooperative or defecting strategy are distributed on a square lattice. The rate of strategy adoption is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-23 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

We introduce the concept of deformed zero-determinant strategies in repeated games. We then show that the Tit-for-Tat strategy in the repeated prisoner's dilemma game is a deformed zero-determinant strategy, which unilaterally equalizes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Masahiko Ueda

We consider a network of coupled agents playing the Prisoner's Dilemma game, in which players are allowed to pick a strategy in the interval [0,1], with 0 corresponding to defection, 1 to cooperation, and intermediate values representing…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-28 Francesco Sorrentino , Nicholas Mecholsky

Zero-determinant strategies are memory-one strategies in repeated games which unilaterally enforce linear relations between expected payoffs of players. Recently, the concept of zero-determinant strategies was extended to the class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Masahiko Ueda

We study a modified prisoner's dilemma game taking place on two-dimensional disordered square lattices. The players are pure strategists and can either cooperate or defect with their immediate neighbors. In the generations each player…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhi-Xi Wu , Xin-Jian Xu , Zi-Gang Huang , Sheng-Jun Wang , Ying-Hai Wang

We have proposed two new evolutionary rules on spatio-iterated games that is not mimic evolution of strategies, and mainly discussed the Prisoner's Dilemma game \cite{toyota2} by the two evoutionary rules \cite{toyota3}. In this paper we…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norihito Toyota