Network structure, strategy evolution, and the game of Chicken

✍ Scribed by Frank Tutzauer; Margaret K. Chojnacki; Pauline W. Hoffmann

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 231 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-8733
• DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2005.08.002

✦ Synopsis

Cellular automata -lattice-like grids of interlinked cells -can be used to study system evolution. The cells are occupied by disputants with differing strategic interaction rules. After interacting, each disputant either retains its strategy or adopts that of a neighbor, depending on relative strategy success. In this article, we use networks to answer questions about strategy evolution in the game of Chicken. We identify the nodes of a network with cells of an automaton and consider nodes adjacent if they are neighboring cells in the automaton, allowing us to determine structural influences of strategy evolution.