Feedback reciprocity mechanism promotes the cooperation of highly clustered scale-free networks

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 Oct;82(4 Pt 2):047101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.047101. Epub 2010 Oct 1.

Abstract

We study how the clustering coefficient influences the evolution of cooperation in scale-free public goods games. In games played by groups of individuals, triangle loops provide stronger support for mutual cooperation to resist invasion of selfish behavior than that in the absence of such loops, so that diffusion of cooperative behavior is relatively promoted. The feedback reciprocity mechanism of triangle plays a key role in facilitating cooperation in high clustered networks.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cooperative Behavior*
  • Feedback*
  • Game Theory
  • Humans
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Probability