The story of conflict and cooperation has started millions years ago, now it is everywhere: In biology, computer science, economics, political psychology. Examples include wars, airline alliances, trade, oligopolistic cartels, the evolution species genes, team sports. However, neither cooperative games nor non-cooperative games—in which each player acts independently without collaboration with ...

We develop a cooperation and a competition of two different natures modelizations. The first one, the GMM [1], is a modelization of the parametrisation distribution of the speaker speech. The second, the ARVM [2, 3], is a modelization of the speaker speech spectral evolution. To allow cooperation and competition between different modelizations we use a classical measure normalization. We invest...

in this paper, the competition between two supply chains and their elements is studied. each chain consisted of a manufacturer and a distributor and the two chains compete in a market with single type of customer sensitive to price and delivery time. therefore, this is a two-supply chain game and during the competition between two supply chains, elements of each supply chain (manufacturer and/o...

Like many other bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa sequesters iron from the environment through the secretion, and subsequent uptake, of iron-binding molecules. As these molecules can be taken up by other bacteria in the population than those who secreted them, this is a form of cooperation through a public good. Traditionally, this problem has been studied by comparing the relative fitnesses of ...

Prosocial punishment has been proved to be a powerful mean to promote cooperation. Recent studies have found that social exclusion, which indeed can be regarded as a kind of punishment, can also support cooperation. However, if prosocial punishment and exclusion are both present, it is still unclear which strategy is more advantageous to curb free-riders. Here we first study the direct competit...

We use game theory and experimental economics approaches to analyze the relationships between corporate culture and the persistent performance differences among seemingly similar enterprises. First, we show that competition leads to higher minimum effort levels in the minimum effort coordination game. This implies that, organizations with competitive institutional design are more likely to have...

Living systems reached a good balance between competition and cooperation in order to prevail – as individual or as a group. Artificial systems either work in isolation or are manually designed to cooperate, which is of paramount importance in networking applications. Recently, research considered bio-inspired approaches to increase the robustness of distributed algorithms. However, when mimick...

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