The Complexity Of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration
A set of agent-based modeling studies explores how simple adaptive rules can produce cooperation, norms, and complex social patterns across politics, economics, and biology. Using repeated games such as the Prisoner’s Dilemma, it analyzes when reciprocity and reputation flourish, how alliances form, and why norms emerge and persist, showing how local interactions can yield global order or polarization. It also offers practical guidance on modeling and evolutionary search, highlighting conditions—like the shadow of the future and network structure—that foster robust cooperation amid competition.
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- 1997
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