Heterogeneity of strategy persistence promotes cooperation in spatial prisoner’s dilemma game

Abstract

Heterogeneity plays a critical role in promoting cooperation for various evolutionary systems, which has received widespread attention and research from relevant scholars. Additionally, reputation has a significant impact on an individual’s decision-making, and scholars have proposed reputation-based evolutionary mechanisms to promote cooperation. Most of these mechanisms measure reputation as part of an individual’s payoff, and influencing the individual’s decision-making. However, the influence of reputation on the individual’s decision-making should be more through heterogeneous way. Here we propose the heterogeneity of strategy persistence evolutionary mechanism, in which the heterogeneity factor and the number of strategy persistence together influence the evolution of cooperation. We measure the reputation of individuals by the number of strategy persistence. The proposed mechanism effectively highlights the heterogeneity of an individual’s reputation and has shown to be successful in promoting cooperation.