Emotion, trustworthiness and altruistic punishment in a tragedy of the commons social dilemma

Garrison Greenwood, Hussein A. Abbass, Eleni Petraki

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Abstract

Social dilemmas require individuals to tradeoff self interests against group interests. Considerable research effort has attempted to identify conditions that promote cooperation in these social dilemmas. It has previously been shown altruistic punishment can help promote cooperation but the mechanisms that make it work are not well under- stood. We have designed a multi-agent system to investigate altruistic punishment in tragedy of the commons social dilemmas. Players develop emotional responses as they interact with others. A zero order Seguno fuzzy system is used to model the player emotional responses. Players change strategies when their emotional level exceeds a personal emotional threshold. Trustworthiness of how other players will act in the future helps choose the new strategy. Our results show how strategies evolve in a finite population match predictions made using discrete replicator equations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 3rd Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI 2017)
Subtitle of host publicationArtificial Life and Computational Intelligence
Place of PublicationUnited Kingdom
PublisherSpringer
Pages12-24
Number of pages13
Volume10142
ISBN (Print)9783319516905
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017
Event3rd Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence - Geelong, Geelong, Australia
Duration: 31 Jan 20172 Feb 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10142 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence
Abbreviated titleACALCI 2017
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityGeelong
Period31/01/172/02/17

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