Competition and cooperation in sociophysical settings: Simulation of a strategic model

Dynamical processes as diverse as expansion, coalescence, interaction, diffusion, and disintegration, act not only upon physical systems under different circumstances but also upon social systems across their vast spatio-temporal scales. How the process of invasion in unison with the defensive skills shape the imperial growth and collapse as a consequence of vicious warfare and assimilation, could be understood as an interplay between competition and cooperation. Here we raise the question: how can the consequences of deceptive invasion be understood and quantified in terms of the interplay between such competition and cooperation? By embedding sets of radical sensory inputs and historic invasion rules in an artificial empire, here we reveal through in-silico experiments how the great empires were able to withstand the deceptive invasion and how the defeat and victory are related to the strategy of deception as well as the defensive manoeuvres. Within the competing dynamics of the optimal defensive structure we find that the deceptive invasion favours slower invaders, as observed in the evolution of other cooperatively growing populations Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 , 208104 (2015)]. Our assay might motivate to design systems for defeating deception in widely diverse arena of the biosphere and would help building a more viable social network model for evolutionary analysis.