Coevolution of Environmental Perception and Cooperative Behavior in Evacuation Crowd

Abstract

For the evacuation crowd of social agents, environment plays a big effect on the behavior and decision of the agents. When facing the uncertain environment, the behavior and decision of agents depend heavily on the perception of environment. Therefore, the cooperation between agents and their perception of environment may coexist during evacuation. Here we establish a mechanism to analyze the coevolution between the cooperation of agents and the perception of environment. In detail, we use a regular square lattice with periodic boundaries, where two payoff matrices are used to describe two kinds of games between neighbors in the safe and dangerous environments. For individual agent, its perception can be adjusted by interacting with neighboring agents. When the environment is generally considered dangerous, the fraction of cooperative agents keeps at a high level, even if the value of b is very large. When all the agents think that the environment is safe, the fraction of cooperation will decrease as the value of b increases.