Cooperation based on similarity has been discussed since Richard Dawkins introduced the term “green beard” effect. In these models, individuals cooperate based on an aribtrary signal (or tag) such as the famous green beard. Here, two different models for such tag based cooperation are...

In human societies the probability of strategy adoption from a given person may be affected by the personal features. Now we investigate how an artificially imposed restricted ability to reproduce, overruling ones fitness, affects an evolutionary process. For this purpose we employ the...

The dynamics of opinion formation based on a majority rule model is studied in a network with the social hierarchical structure as one of its limits. The exit probability is found to change sensitively with the number of nodes in the system, but not with the parameter of homophyly characterizing...