title: Older partner selection promotes the prevalence of cooperation in evolutionary games.
abstract: Evolutionary games typically come with the interplays between evolution of individual strategy and adaptation to network structure. How these dynamics in the co-evolution promote (or obstruct) the cooperation is regarded as an important topic in social, economic, and biological fields. Combining spatial selection with partner choice, the focus of this paper is to identify which neighbour should be selected as a role to imitate during the process of co-evolution. Age, an internal attribute and kind of local piece of information regarding the survivability of the agent, is a significant consideration for the selection strategy. The analysis and simulations presented, demonstrate that older partner selection for strategy imitation could foster the evolution of cooperation. The younger partner selection, however, may decrease the level of cooperation. Our model highlights the importance of agent׳s age on the promotion of cooperation in evolutionary games, both efficiently and effectively.
authors: Key Lab of Information System Engineering, NUDT, Changsha 410073, China. Electronic address: yangguoli@nudt.edu.cn.
authors: Guoli
authors: G
authors: Yang
authors: Key Lab of Information System Engineering, NUDT, Changsha 410073, China.
authors: Jincai
authors: J
authors: Huang
authors: Key Lab of Information System Engineering, NUDT, Changsha 410073, China; College of Information System and Management, NUDT, Changsha 410073, China.
authors: Weiming
authors: W
authors: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005716:Game Theory; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015995:Prevalence
keywords: Agent׳s age; Cooperation and diversity; Evolutionary games; Partner imitation; Spatial selection