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

Authors

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