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Abstract | ||
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A Transparent game is a game-theoretic setting that takes action visibility into account. In each round, depending on the relative timing of their actions, players have a certain probability to see their partner9s choice before making their own decision. This probability is determined by the level of transparency. At the two extremes, a game with zero transparency is equivalent to the classical simultaneous game, and a game with maximal transparency corresponds to a sequential game. Despite the prevalence of intermediate transparency in many everyday interactions such scenarios have not been sufficiently studied. Here we consider a transparent iterated Prisoner9s dilemma (iPD) and use evolutionary simulations to investigate how and why the success of various strategies changes with the level of transparency. We demonstrate that non-zero transparency greatly reduces the set of successful memory-one strategies compared to the simultaneous iPD. For low and moderate transparency the classical Win - Stay, Lose - Shift (WSLS) strategy is the only evolutionary successful strategy. For high transparency all strategies are evolutionary unstable in the sense that they can be easily counteracted, and, finally, for maximal transparency a novel Leader-Follower strategy outperforms WSLS. Our results provide a partial explanation for the fact that the strategies proposed for the simultaneous iPD are rarely observed in nature, where high levels of transparency are common. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1007/978-3-030-16692-2_14 | EvoApplications |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Evolutionary game theory,Iterated Prisoner’,s dilemma,Transparent games | Simultaneous game,Transparency (graphic),Visibility,Mathematical economics,Computer science,Prisoner's dilemma,Evolutionary game theory,Dilemma,Sequential game,Iterated function | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
Authors | ||
8 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Anton M. Unakafov | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Thomas Schultze | 2 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Igor Kagan | 3 | 2 | 1.87 |
| Sebastian Möller | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Alexander Gail | 5 | 4 | 1.77 |
| Stefan Treue | 6 | 8 | 6.30 |
| Stephan Eule | 7 | 1 | 1.06 |
| Fred Wolf | 8 | 1 | 1.38 |