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Kinship can hinder cooperation in heterogeneous populations
Kin selection and direct reciprocity are two most basic mechanisms for
promoting cooperation in human society. Generalizing the standard models of the
multi-player Prisoner's Dilemma and the Public Goods games for heterogeneous
populations, we study the effects of genetic relatedness on cooperation in the
context of repeated interactions. Two sets of interrelated results are
established: a set of analytical results focusing on the subgame perfect
equilibrium and a set of agent-based simulation results based on an
evolutionary game model. We show that in both cases increasing genetic
relatedness does not always facilitate cooperation. Specifically, kinship can
hinder the effectiveness of reciprocity in two ways. First, the condition for
sustaining cooperation through direct reciprocity is harder to satisfy when
relatedness increases in an intermediate range. Second, full cooperation is
impossible to sustain for a medium-high range of relatedness values. Moreover,
individuals with low cost-benefit ratios can end up with lower payoffs than
their groupmates with high cost-benefit ratios. Our results point to the
importance of explicitly accounting for within-population heterogeneity when
studying the evolution of cooperation
Optimal Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy with Markov Decision Process and Reinforcement Learning Technique
Quantifying Cyber Attacks on Industrial MMC-HVDC Control System Using Structured Pseudospectrum
Multi-site, Multi-domain Airway Tree Modeling (ATM'22): A Public Benchmark for Pulmonary Airway Segmentation
Open international challenges are becoming the de facto standard for
assessing computer vision and image analysis algorithms. In recent years, new
methods have extended the reach of pulmonary airway segmentation that is closer
to the limit of image resolution. Since EXACT'09 pulmonary airway segmentation,
limited effort has been directed to quantitative comparison of newly emerged
algorithms driven by the maturity of deep learning based approaches and
clinical drive for resolving finer details of distal airways for early
intervention of pulmonary diseases. Thus far, public annotated datasets are
extremely limited, hindering the development of data-driven methods and
detailed performance evaluation of new algorithms. To provide a benchmark for
the medical imaging community, we organized the Multi-site, Multi-domain Airway
Tree Modeling (ATM'22), which was held as an official challenge event during
the MICCAI 2022 conference. ATM'22 provides large-scale CT scans with detailed
pulmonary airway annotation, including 500 CT scans (300 for training, 50 for
validation, and 150 for testing). The dataset was collected from different
sites and it further included a portion of noisy COVID-19 CTs with ground-glass
opacity and consolidation. Twenty-three teams participated in the entire phase
of the challenge and the algorithms for the top ten teams are reviewed in this
paper. Quantitative and qualitative results revealed that deep learning models
embedded with the topological continuity enhancement achieved superior
performance in general. ATM'22 challenge holds as an open-call design, the
training data and the gold standard evaluation are available upon successful
registration via its homepage.Comment: 32 pages, 16 figures. Homepage: https://atm22.grand-challenge.org/.
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Distributed Grouping Cooperative Dynamic Task Assignment Method of UAV Swarm
Aiming at the problem of UAV swarms with distributed subsets performing cooperative reconnaissance-and-attack tasks on multi-targets in complex and uncertain combat scenarios, a distributed grouping cooperative dynamic task assignment method is proposed based on extended contract network protocol. The dynamic task assignment model for the UAV swarm with the topology of distributed subsets is established considering multiple constraints such as task cooperation, performing sequence, dynamic environment, communication topology, payload model, and UAV capability. According to the characteristics of multi-participants and multi-tasks in the process of UAV swarm executing tasks, the determination mechanism on cooperators and the selection mechanism of sequential tasks are proposed, and then the contract network protocol is extended. On the basis of the above, an event-triggered task assignment strategy for dynamic tasks is designed. The simulated results show that the proposed method can achieve the cooperative dynamic assignment of the UAV swarm to perform reconnaissance-and-attack tasks to multi-targets in complex and uncertain combat scenarios, improve the adaptiveness of the swarm under the sudden circumstance, and realize the optimization for task execution efficiency of the UAV swarm
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