Cooperation is essential for complex biological and social systems and explaining its evolutionary origins remains a … central question in several disciplines. Tag systems are a class of models demonstrating the evolution of cooperation between …

-)establishing cooperation. The strategy is compared to well-known strategies in the domain and results presented. The initial findings, as well …

considered. We find that the "intelligence" of the players plays a crucial role in the way players learn to cooperate. The …

cooperation in an artificial society. In this framework the environmental pressure to cooperate is controllable by a single … results from experiments that implemented and tested environments based upon this new model of cooperation. The results show … that the pressure to cooperate leads to the evolution of communication skills facilitating cooperation. Furthermore, higher …

How to sustain cooperation is a key challenge for any society. Different social organizations have evolved in the …

Cooperation among self-interested individuals pervades nature and seems essential to explain several landmarks in the … cooperation. In this work we approach the problem from a different angle. We consider a system of adaptive agents, in a two … steady states are characterised by different degrees of cooperation, "economic geographies" (population structure and maps of …

a model that builds on two separate literatures: the literature on international monetary cooperation on the one hand …

. The aversion to intertemporal substitution, a regular feature of real world agents, facilitates cooperation by decreasing …. Access to goods’ markets and ‘money’ may then hinder cooperation by undoing these effects, allowing agents to save and … markets make cooperation even harder to sustain, unless the market interest rate is sufficiently below agents’ discount rate …

for cooperation. As a counterfactual, we analyse worker behaviour when workers are paid piece rates and thus have no … exposure cooperate more. Shocks to the workforce in the form of new worker arrivals disrupt cooperation in the short term but …