Cooperation and competition in a social structure: An agent- based model of fishing system

Authors

Reniel Cabral National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
Porfirio Aliño Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines Diliman
May Lim National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

Fishers strategize on a day-to-day basis in pursuit of their livelihood. There are many factors they consider in fishing but their ultimate goal is to choose a
good fishing site. Fishers, in the hope of locating good sites, try to access information from the high gainer fishers. Fishers may cooperate (share reliable information) or defect and a corresponding payoff results for their action. We analyze how cooperation/competition evolves as we vary the net income threshold of fishers to search for a new fishing site ρs and the net income threshold of fishers to punish defectors ρ_p. The final state of the system at low income threshold for the case ρs equals ρ_p is a global cooperation of fishers in contrast to the global competition (defect) for the case of high income threshold. We found a transition region where polarity (segregation) of cooperators and defectors formed. On the other hand, low ρ_palways result to cooperation regardless of the value of ρ_s.

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Issue

2011: Proceedings of the 29th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas National Physics Congress

Article ID

SPP2011-1A-5

Section

Complex Systems

Published

2011-10-24

How to Cite

[1]

R Cabral, P Aliño, and M Lim, Cooperation and competition in a social structure: An agent- based model of fishing system, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 29, SPP2011-1A-5 (2011). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP2011-1A-5.