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Indexed by:期刊论文

Date of Publication:2016-11-15

Journal:PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Included Journals:SCIE、EI、Scopus

Volume:462

Page Number:92-103

ISSN No.:0378-4371

Key Words:Multi-player donor-recipient game; Cooperation promotion; Discriminative cooperation strategy; Spatial evolutionary game theory

Abstract:Although the two-player donor-recipient game has been used extensively in studying cooperation in social dilemmas, the scenario in which a donor can simultaneously donate resources to multiple recipients is also common in human societies, economic systems, and social networks. This paper formulates a model of the multi-player donor-recipient game considering a multi-recipient scenario. The promotion of cooperation is also studied by introducing a discriminative cooperation strategy into the game, which donates resources to recipients in proportion to their previous donations with a cost for the collection of information. The evolutionary dynamics of individual strategies are explored in homogeneous and heterogeneous scenarios by leveraging spatial evolutionary game theory. The results show that in a homogeneous scenario, defectors can dominate the network at the equilibrium state only when the cost-to-benefit ratio (R) of donated resources is large. In a heterogeneous scenario, three strategies can coexist all the time within the range of R that was studied, and the promotion of cooperation is more effective when the values of R are smaller. Results from a single node evolution and the formation of local patterns of interaction are provided, and it is analytically shown that discriminators can maintain fairness in resource donation and guarantee long-term cooperation when R is not too large. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.