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Pierre Buesser1, Marco Tomassini1
1Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Abstract:
We study cyclic evolutionary games in a spatial diluted grid environment in which agents strategically interact locally but can also opportunistically move to other positions within a given migration radius. We find that opportunistic migration can inverse the cyclic prevalence between the strategies when the frequency of random imitation is large enough compared to the payoff-driven imitation. At the transition the average size of the patterns diverges and this threatens diversity of strategies.
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