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Tag-Mediated Altruism is Contingent on How Cheaters Are Defined

Shutters, Shade T.; Hales, David - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16 (2013) 1, pp. 4-4

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 …

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Cooperation with Random Interactions and Without Memory or "tags"

Fort, Hugo - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 6 (2003) 2, pp. 4-4

The self-organization into cooperative regimes of a system of "selfish" agents playing the pairwise Prisoner's Dilemma game (PDG) is analyzed using a simple agent-based model. At each time step t, the agents divide into those who cooperate (C) and those who defect (D). The agents have no memory...

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Cooperation between Lithuania and Western countries on energy sector development issues

Miskinis, Vaclovas - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 19 (2003) 2/3, pp. 151-168

without cooperation with developed countries, technical assistance of the EU-PHARE program and a range of other programs. The … economy and the positive contribution from cooperation between Lithuania and industrialised countries in several areas overall …

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Coping with power scarcity in an emerging megacity: a consumers' perspective from Hyderabad

Hanisch, Markus; Kimmich, Christian; Rommel, Jens; … - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 33 (2010) 3/4, pp. 189-204

Facing rapid urbanisation in developing countries, public utilities' electricity management is challenged by an ever-growing demand and collapsing infrastructures. Economic growth and consumers' related behaviours add to the technical and governance problems. We analyse the ways in which...

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Cooperation between developed countries and the Republic of Latvia in the field of energy: globalisation

Aleksandrs Oss, Larisa Zeltina, Namejs Zeltinsh - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 19 (2003) 2/3, pp. 212-224

This article presents characteristics of Latvian economics. A detailed analysis is given for the cooperation of Latvia … and Eastern Europe Countries, intended for the research "Cooperation between developed and post-transformation countries …

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A Forgiving Strategy for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma

O'Riordan, Colm - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 3 (2000) 4, pp. 3-3

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

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The Integration of Defectors in a Cooperative Setting

Bissey, Marie-Edith; Ortona, Guido - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 5 (2002) 2, pp. 2-2

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

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Emerging communication and cooperation in evolving agent societies

Buzing, Pieter; Eiben, A.E.; Schut, Martijn C. - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 8 (2004) 1, pp. 2-2

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 …

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Natural gas markets and the creation of an export gas pipeline system in Eastern Russia

Saneev, B.G.; Sokolov, A.D.; Popov, S.P. - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 20 (2003) 4, pp. 393-406

The world natural gas markets are analysed, with a special focus on the countries of Northeast Asia (NEA). The natural gas demands of China, Japan and South Korea, until the year 2020, is projected, considering a possible share of Russian gas. The resource potential of natural gas from the...

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Rural electrification by photovoltaic solar energy in Algeria

Benatiallah, A.; Kadi, L.; Dakyo, B. - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 31 (2009) 2, pp. 150-156

The economic and social development in Algeria in the last years has been in need of continues increasing in demand of electricity, especially in the isolated countryside. Solar energy represents a significant potential in Algeria, the country receives more than 3,000 hour of sunshine per year...

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