Analyzing social network structures in the iterated prosoner's dilemma with choice and refusal . Nevertheless , choice and refusal also permit opportunistic players to home in quickly on exploitable players and form parasitic relationships. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994. However , not many of them deal with trust in an explicit manner. There are however some that do.
Agents choose to cooperate or defect entirely based on the history of previous encounters.
In agent systems, people are free to introduce new agents all the time. Agents do not have to wait for evolutionary processes to be created. Therefore , the system should also be stable with respect to such agents. Metastability is also applicable to agent systems, but it is unclear what happens to the metastability if external actors are monitoring the system s state and manipulate it accordingly. Mark D. Smucker, E. Ann Stanley, and Dan Ashlock.