Title: Social-global neighbourhood topology for evolving cooperative behaviour of iterated n-players prisoners' dilemma

Authors: Khaled Suwais

Addresses: Faculty of Computer Studies, Arab Open University, Alfalah District, 11861, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Abstract: This paper presents an alternative neighbourhood topology that can evolve cooperative behaviour of iterated n-players prisoners' dilemma (INPPD) players. The new social-global topology focuses on the importance of effective communication between INPPD players while exchanging their experiences. This communication is represented by allowing individuals to react with their peers' past actions to promote cooperative strategies. Our topology is designed to enrich the experience of the players from the experiences of other players within their own society, as well as from other societies in the population. Several analyses and benchmark tests are applied on our topology. The results reveal that the social-global topology could evolve and enhance cooperative behaviour of INPPD players and outperform other existing well-known neighbourhood topologies.

Keywords: neighbourhood topology; evolving behaviour; prisoners' dilemma; game theory.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMOR.2017.085380

International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research, 2017 Vol.11 No.1, pp.67 - 89

Received: 05 Oct 2015
Accepted: 07 Nov 2015

Published online: 25 Jul 2017 *

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