Evolution of Cooperative Behavior in Simulation Agents

Cooperative Co-Evolving Neural Networks for Robosoccer Simulation

Doctoral Thesis Proposal: Cooperative Task Processing

This work describes the dynamical behavior of agents that can each share the task-processing burden of their immediate neighbors. The work is influenced by studies of the evolution of cooperation and extends existing work in the design of resource allocation strategies on cooperative agents. A framework for shared task processing on a network is presented, and theoretical results show sufficien...

Coordination Approach to Find Best Defense Decision with Multiple Possibilities among Robocup Soccer Simulation Team

In 2D Soccer Simulation league, agents will decide based on information and data in their model. Effective decisions need to have world model information without any noise and missing data; however, there are few solutions to omit noise in world model data; so we should find efficient ways to reduce the effect of noise when making decisions. In this article we evaluate some simple solutions whe...

Altruism among Simple and Smart Vampires

In this work we present a simulation study drawn upon a famous ethological example: food-sharing habit of vampire bats in Central America. A norm of reciprocity is introduced when agents are expected to exhibit a cooperative behavior under serious environmental strictures (infrequent but lethal food scarcity). We compare different agents’ architectures (with different levels of cognitive comple...

Emergence of Cooperative Societies in Evolutionary Games Using a Social Orientation Model

We utilize evolutionary game theory to study the evolution of cooperative societies and the behaviors of individual agents (i.e., players) in such societies. We present a novel player model based upon empirical evidence from the social and behavioral sciences stating that: (1) an individual’s behavior may often be motivated not only by self-interest but also by the consequences for others, and ...

Network Modularity is essential for evolution of cooperation under uncertainty

Cooperative behavior, which pervades nature, can be significantly enhanced when agents interact in a structured rather than random way; however, the key structural factors that affect cooperation are not well understood. Moreover, the role structure plays with cooperation has largely been studied through observing overall cooperation rather than the underlying components that together shape coo...