2014/05/31 by Uzay Çetin, Çetin, Haluk O. Bingol · 4 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.5488/cmp.17.33001
published in Condensed Matter Physics 17(3), 33001 (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of NAS of Ukraine) · 8 pages, 3 figures
openalex publication_date 2014/09/01 · arxiv created 2014/11/24 · arxiv updated 2014/11/25 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
How attention scarcity effects the outcomes of a game? We present our findings on a version of the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma (IPD) game in which players can accept or refuse to play with their partner. We study the memory size effect on determining the right partner to interact with. We investigate the conditions under which the cooperators are more likely to be advantageous than the defectors. This work demonstrates that, in order to beat defection, players do not need a full memorization of each action of all opponents. There exists a critical attention capacity threshold to beat defectors. This threshold depends not only on the ratio of the defectors in the population but also on the attention allocation strategy of the players.