Abstract
The Prisoner's Dilemma is a widely employed metaphor for problems associated with the evolution and maintenance of cooperative behaviour. Here we outline a new approach, in which players — who are either pure cooperators or pure defectors — interact with neighbours in some spatial array. Such “spatial games” avoid problems associated with earlier work based on individual strategies, such as “tit-for-tat”, and may provide a robust explanation for how various kinds of collective social behaviour is maintained.
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May, R.M., Bohoeffer, S., Nowak, M.A. (1995). Spatial games and evolution of cooperation. In: Morán, F., Moreno, A., Merelo, J.J., Chacón, P. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 929. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59496-5_340
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