Expected Dynamics of an Imitation Model in 2x2 Symmetric Games

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The figure shows the actual (in blue) and expected (in black) proportion of -strategists in a population of
individuals who, at each iteration (of time length
), are randomly matched in pairs to play a symmetric 2×2 game. The two possible actions (or pure strategies) in the game are labeled
and
. Thus, each individual in the population is either an
-strategist or a
-strategist. The payoffs of the game are
,
,
, and
(parameters), where, for instance,
denotes the payoff obtained by an
-strategist when he plays with a
-strategist.
Contributed by: Luis R. Izquierdo and Segismundo S. Izquierdo (May 2010)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
Snapshots
Details
The first three Snapshots show the Hawk-Dove game in a population of individuals (
denotes the Hawk strategy and
denotes the Dove strategy).
Snapshot 1:
Snapshot 2:
Snapshot 3:
The last three Snapshots show the Prisoner's Dilemma game in a population of individuals (
denotes the cooperative strategy and
denotes the defective strategy).
Snapshot 4:
Snapshot 5:
Snapshot 6:
Reference
[1] S. S. Izquierdo and L. R. Izquierdo, "Stochastic Approximation to Understand Simple Simulation Models," Journal of Statistical Physics, Dec 2012. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10955-012-0654-z. Download preprint.
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