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Social Dilemmas

The problem of social dilemmas for autonomous agents is how to encourage cooperative behavior in which individuals sacrifice for the overall benefit of the group.

• A general description of social dilemmas showing how cooperation depends on the size of the group and the individual expectations of future interactions:
  N. S. Glance and B. A. Huberman, Dynamics of Social Dilemmas, Scientific American, March 1994
• When the power of cooperation can offset the tendency to free ride:
  B. A. Huberman and C. H. Loch, Collaboration, Motivation, and the Size of Organizations, 1996
• A two-level social dilemma for training in organizations for managers and workers:
  N. S. Glance, T. Hogg and B. A. Huberman, Training and Turnover in Organizations, AAAI Spring Symposium 1994
• The Dynamics of Social Dilemmas:
  • B. A. Huberman and N. S. Glance, Beliefs and Cooperation
  • B. A. Huberman and N. S. Glance, Fluctuating Efforts and Sustainable Cooperation, 1996
  • B. A. Huberman and N. S. Glance, Diversity and Collective Action
  • B. A. Huberman and N. S. Glance, Evolutionary Games and Computer Simulations
  • N. S. Glance, Dynamics with Expectations, PhD thesis, 1993
• Social dilemmas are at the root of internet congestions:
  B. A. Huberman and R. N. Lukose, Social Dilemmas in Internet Congestions, 1997