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AGSOE: Arbeitsgruppe Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

AGSOE 13: Award Ceremony: Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics

AGSOE 13.1: Invited Talk

Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 16:15–17:00, HSZ 02

The calculus of selfishness — •Karl Sigmund — Faculty of mathematics, University of Vienna

This talk shows by means of simple examples how evolutionary game theory can deal with social dilemmas. In particular, it presents models helping to explain how cooperation emerges in a world of individuals guided by self-interest, and caught in a social trap.