@inproceedings{f65429930b85422e9f17bc8db8ddcaeb,
title = "Global network cooperation catalysed by a small prosocial migrant clique",
abstract = "Much research has been carried out to understand the emergence of cooperation in simulated social networks of competing individuals. Such research typically implements a population as a single connected network. Here we adopt a more realistic premise; namely that populations consist of multiple networks, whose members migrate from one to another. Specifically, we isolate the key elements of the scenario where a minority of members from a cooperative network migrate to a network populated by defectors. Using the public goods game to model group-wise cooperation, we find that under certain circumstances, the concerted actions of a trivial number of such migrants will catalyse widespread behavioural change throughout an entire population. Such results support a wider argument: that the general presence of some form of disruption contributes to the emergence of cooperation in social networks, and consequently that simpler models may encode a determinism that precludes the emergence of cooperation.",
keywords = "cs.MA, cs.SI, physics.soc-ph",
author = "Steve Miller and Joshua Knowles",
year = "2016",
month = jun,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-41312-9_6",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319413112",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "62--74",
editor = "Martyn Amos and Anne Condon",
booktitle = "Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation",
note = "15th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2016) ; Conference date: 11-07-2016 Through 15-07-2016",
}