A Brief Survey of the Prisoners' Dilemma Game and Its Potential Use in Biology

Kalliopi Kastampolidou; Maria Nefeli Nikiforos; Theodore Andronikos

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32622-7_29

A Brief Survey of the Prisoners' Dilemma Game and Its Potential Use in Biology

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2020:1194:315-322. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32622-7_29.

Authors

Kalliopi Kastampolidou¹, Maria Nefeli Nikiforos², Theodore Andronikos³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. c17kast@ionio.gr.
² Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.
³ Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. andronikos@ionio.gr.

PMID: 32468547
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32622-7_29

Abstract

Prisoners' Dilemma is a well-known game in game theory with many variations and applications in a number of fields. The addition of quantum strategies in this game opens up new possibilities and changes the equilibria of the game significantly.

Keywords: Biology; Game theory; Prisoners’ Dilemma; Quantum computation; Quantum game theory.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Biology* / methods
Game Theory*
Humans
Surveys and Questionnaires