Effect of initial fraction of cooperators on cooperative behavior in evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game.

We investigate the influence of initial fraction of cooperators on the evolution of cooperation in spatial prisoner's dilemma games. Compared with the results of heterogeneous networks, we find that there is a relatively low initial fraction of cooperators to guarantee higher equilibrium cooper...

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Main Authors: Keizo Shigaki, Zhen Wang, Jun Tanimoto, Eriko Fukuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3820665?pdf=render