Emergence of Cooperative Behavior by Simple Reactive Agents

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to describe how simple reactive agents acquire cooperative behavior. It is assumed that they achieve complex behaviors by interaction with environment. The process through which agents achieve their cooperative activity is defined as four phases: action, behavior, activity and cooperation. Each agent has the Multi-layered Neural Network, and it adapt to the environment by evolutionary process. We show that the complexity of environment enable the agents to perform cooperative behavior in spite of their simplicity.