Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/168005 
Year of Publication: 
2017
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[Journal:] Games [ISSN:] 2073-4336 [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 1-13
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MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
In this paper, we study how the pro-social impact due to the vigilance by other individuals is conditioned by both environmental and evolutionary effects. To this aim, we consider a known model where agents play a Prisoner's Dilemma Game (PDG) among themselves and the pay-off matrix of an individual changes according to the number of neighbors that are 'vigilant', i.e., how many neighbors watch out for her behavior. In particular, the temptation to defect decreases linearly with the number of vigilant neighbors. This model proved to support cooperation in specific conditions, and here we check its robustness with different topologies, microscopical update rules and initial conditions. By means of many numerical simulations and few theoretical considerations, we find in which situations the vigilance by the others is more effective in favoring cooperative behaviors and when its influence is weaker.
Subjects: 
cooperation
prisoner's dilemma
evolutionary dynamics
monitoring hypothesis
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