Analyzing coevolutionary games with dynamic fitness landscapes

Coevolutionary games cast players that may change their strategies as well as their networks of interaction. In this paper a framework is introduced for describing coevolutionary game dynamics by landscape models. It is shown that coevolutionary games invoke dynamic landscapes. Numerical experiments are shown for prisoner's dilemma (PD) and snow drift (SD) games that both use either birth-death (BD) or death-birth (DB) strategy updating. The resulting landscapes are analyzed with respect to modality and ruggedness.