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EPL
Volume 118, Number 2, April 2017
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| Article Number | 28002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/118/28002 | |
| Published online | 20 June 2017 | |
Persistence paves the way for cooperation in evolutionary games
School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications - Beijing 100876, PRC
Received: 6 April 2017
Accepted: 30 May 2017
Cooperation is an effective way to maximize collective benefits, especially in modern human society. The issues on the emergence and maintenance of cooperation have attracted much attention in recent years. Here, we introduce the persistence parameter τ to characterize the time duration of choices held by individuals and consider the effects of τ on cooperation. We find that persistence could promote cooperation in a population no matter what the network structure is. Furthermore, the results on heterogeneous networks show that individuals with larger τ are more inclined to cooperate than those with smaller τ. Moreover, we investigate the effects of correlations between degree and persistence in scale-free networks and find that assortative matching could remarkably enhance cooperation whereas disassortative matching has adverse impacts on the evolution of cooperation.
PACS: 87.23.Kg – Dynamics of evolution / 02.50.Le – Decision theory and game theory / 87.23.Cc – Population dynamics and ecological pattern formation
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