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Win-stay-lose-learn promotes cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma game with voluntary participation
Chen Chu1, Jinzhuo Liu2, Chen Shen1
1School of Statistics and Mathematics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Abstract:
Voluntary participation, demonstrated to be a simple yet effective mechanism to promote persistent cooperative behavior, has been extensively studied. It has also been verified that the aspiration-based win-stay-lose-learn strategy updating rule promotes the evolution of cooperation. Inspired by this well-known fact, we combine the Win-Stay-Lose-Learn updating rule with voluntary participation: Players maintain their strategies when they are satisfied, or players attempt to imitate the strategy of one randomly chosen neighbor. We find that this mechanism maintains persistent cooperative behavior, even further promotes the evolution of cooperation under certain conditions.
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