Title
Dynamics of individual specialization and global diversification in communities
Abstract
We discuss a model of an economic community consisting of $N$ interacting agents. The state of each agent at any time is characterized, in general, by a mixed strategy profile drawn from a space of $s$ pure strategies. The community evolves as agents update their strategy profiles in response to payoffs received from other agents. The evolution equation is a generalization of the replicator equation. We argue that when $N$ is sufficiently large and the payoff matrix elements satisfy suitable inequalities, the community evolves to retain the full diversity of available strategies even as individual agents specialize to pure strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
3.0.CO;2-Q" target="_self" class="small-link-text"10.1002/(SICI)1099-0526(199801/02)3:33.0.CO;2-Q
Complexity
Keywords
Field
DocType
replicator dynamics,satisfiability,innovation,mixed strategy,mathematics,replicator equation
Strategy,Computer science,Replicator equation,Artificial intelligence,Diversification (marketing strategy),Normal-form game,Evolution equation,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
3
Complexity, Vol. 3, No. 3, 50-56 (1998)
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
1.50
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vivek S. Borkar1974142.14
Sanjay Jain21647177.87
Govindan Rangarajan311111.23