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Public Goods with Punishment and Abstaining in Finite and Infinite Populations

Hauert, Christoph; Traulsen, Arne; Brandt, Hannelore; … - 2008

The evolution and maintenance of cooperation in human and animal societies challenges various disciplines ranging from …. The problem of cooperation becomes even more pronounced when increasing the number of interacting individuals. Punishment … and voluntary participation have been identified as possible factors to support cooperation and prevent cheating …

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The Red King Effect: When the slowest runner wins the coevolutionary race

Bergstrom, Carl T.; Lachmann, Michael - 2003

Mutualisms provide benefits to those who participate in them. As a mutualism evolves, how will these benefits come to be allocated among the participants? We approach this question using evolutionary game theory and explore the ways in which the coevolutionary process determines the allocation...

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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001

altruism, and (3) the possibility of sustained mutual cooperation in finitely repeated social dilemmas is affected by the …

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Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 2002

." Public Choice, 117, 2003, 295-315."Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to …

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Modeling Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks Using Game Theory

Kamhoua, Charles A. K. - 2011

cooperation, a community enforcement mechanism was used, whereby selfish nodes that drop packets were punished not only by the … cooperation. This scheme also eliminated the need to infer the private history of other nodes. Moreover, it simplified the …. A range of simulations was carried out that showed improved cooperation between selfish nodes when compared to older …

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Exploring the coevolution of design and technology

Schweisfurth, Tim; Tietze, Frank; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2011

The importance of design for the success of product innovations has caught increasing attention of scholars lately (Rindova and Petkova, 2007, Verganti, 2008). Previous research is related to user-centered design (Brown, 2008, Veryzer and Borja de Mozota, 2005a), design contribution to NPD...

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The Use of Peer Sanctioning Mechanisms in an Asymmetric Commons Dilemma: An Experimental Study

Eisentraut, Renate - 2000

"In symmetric commons dilemmas, peer sanctioning, i.e. the possibility to gather information about the resource use of others and to sanction overuse, can be an effective structural solution in terms of resource conservation. However, most real world commons are characterized by structural...

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Concerted Action and the Transformer Dilemma: Overcoming Uncertainty in Electricity Provision for Irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India

Kimmich, C. - 2011

"The dilemma structure underlying common-pool resource governance may prevail due to irreconcilable interests of actors, and may involve uncertainties resulting from the resource or actors involved. This paper addresses the knowledge and uncertainty problem in an analysis of electricity...

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Preferences, cooperation, and Institutions

Minkler, Alanson P.; Miceli, Thomas J. - 1997

: 1) pure defection, (2) pure cooperation, and (3) behavior contingent on expected partner behavior. All three behaviors … social policy can affect cooperation rates by changing the size of the three groups exhibiting these behaviors if preferences …

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Specification and enforcement of flexible security policy for active cooperation

Sun, Yuqing; Gong, Bin; Meng, Xiangxu; Lin, Zongkai; … - 2009

Interoperation and services sharing among different systems are becoming new paradigms for enterprise collaboration. To keep ahead in strong competition environments, an enterprise should provide flexible and comprehensive services to partners and support active collaborations with partners and...

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