Conflicts over resources can be resolved in many ways, from fighting to sharing. We introduce here a very simple mechanism for implicitly taking turns, the 2-turn taking rule. Agents adjust their tendencies to fight over a resource based on previous encounter outcomes. Agents possessing this mechanism are shown to be effective in competition with agents lacking the mechanism, indicating that there is some benefit to fairness, particularly when it comes at such a low computational cost.
@inproceedings{schermerhornscheutz03agent,
title={Implicit cooperation in conflict resolution for simple agents},
author={Paul Schermerhorn and Matthias Scheutz},
year={2003},
month={October},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Agent 2003 Conference on Challenges in
Social Simulation},
publisher={University of Chicago},
pages={509--517}
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/schermerhornscheutz03agent.pdf}
}