Biomedical subjects

Ana T C Silva

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PubMed2006

Does mobility decrease cooperation?

We explore the minimal conditions for sustainable cooperation on a spatially distributed population of memoryless, unconditional strategies (cooperators and defectors) in presence of unbiased, non-contingent mobility in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game. We find that cooperative behavior is not only possible but may even be enhanced by such an "always-move" rule, when compared with the strongly viscous ("never-move") case. In addition, mobility also increases the capability of cooperation to emerge and invade a population of defectors, what may have a fundamental role in the problem of the onset of cooperation.

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PubMed2006

Domain motion in the voter model with noise.

We study the voter model with noise on one-dimensional chains using Monte Carlo simulations and finite-size scaling techniques. We observe that the system evolution toward consensus is deeply affected by the addition of noise, and that the time to reach complete ordering increases with the noise parameter q. In particular, the simulations show that the average domain size scales as xi approximately q(-1/2) whereas the magnetization scales with the number of nodes as m approximately N(-1/2).

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