In this work we verified the influence of accidental encounters (i.e., when a female ends up mating with an undesirable male) in Treefrog mating scenarios. We verified the frequency and influence of those accidents on the outcomes of two mating selection strategies (named best-of-closest-n and minimum-threshold). After running a large set of experiments, we confirmed that mating strategies reduced accidents compared against a random choice.
@incollection{ferreirascheutz15ecal,
title={Following Strategies Reduces Accidents, but Makes Outcomes Worse: Evidence from Simulated Treefrog Mating Scenarios},
author={Giordano B. S. Ferreira and Matthias Scheutz},
year={2015},
booktitle={Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015},
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/ferreirascheutz15ecal.pdf}
}