Coevolution of game and network structure with adjustable linking

Most papers about the evolutionary game oil graph assume the statistic network structure. However, in the real world, social interaction could change the relationship among people. And the change of social structure will also affect people's strategies. We build a coevolution model of prisoner's dilemma game and network structure to study the dynamic interaction in the real world. Differing from other coevolution models, players rewire their network connections according to the density of cooperation and other players' payoffs. We use a parameter a to control the effect of payoff in the process of rewiring. Based on the asynchronous update rule and Monte Carlo simulation, we find that, when players prefer to rewire their links to those who are richer, the temptation can increase the cooperation density. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.