4 papers
Braess's paradox in tandem-running ants: When shortest path is not the quickest
Joy Das Bairagya, Udipta Chakraborti, Sumana Annagiri +1
Braess's paradox -- where adding network capacity increases travel time -- is typically attributed to selfish agents. Although eusocial colonies maximize collective fitness, we fin…
Collaboration drives phase transitions towards cooperation in prisoner's dilemma
Joy Das Bairagya, Jonathan Newton, Sagar Chakraborty
We present a collaboration ring model -- a network of players playing the prisoner's dilemma game and collaborating among the nearest neighbours by forming coalitions. The microsco…
A game played by tandem-running ants: Hint of procedural rationality
Joy Das Bairagya, Udipta Chakraborti, Sumana Annagiri +1
Navigation through narrow passages during colony relocation by the tandem-running ants, , is a tour de force of biological traffic coordinatio…
Coordinating cooperation in stag-hunt game: Emergence of evolutionarily stable procedural rationality
Joy Das Bairagya, Sagar Chakraborty
Humans are bounded rational at best and this, we argue, has worked in their favour in the hunter-gatherer society where emergence of a coordinated action, leading to cooperation, i…