What is the degree of competitiveness between Robert and John?
To this end, we implement a population whose agents, provided with a parameter that represents their degree of competitiveness (see [30]), play the PD.
Optimization results show that MBA, IMBA, and WCA offer a good degree of competitiveness against other state-of-the-art metaheuristic techniques.
The multivariate specification also offers consistent evidence of the positive impact that increases in non-wage input factor prices (measured either through the growth in the COICOP index "Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels" or the oil inflation rate) exert on the inflation rate, thus reducing the degree of competitiveness of the Spanish economy.
On the other hand, defector agents, although never decrease their radius, may increase their payoff (and their radius) only for high values of T, otherwise they will have a constant small radius and, as a consequence, a small degree of competitiveness.
This experimental design uses a mental models approach to examine game features (e.g., controller naturalness), player characteristics (e.g., first person shooter experience, sex, degree of competitiveness) and the game play experience (e.g., perceived game realism, immersion, game failure, frustration and enjoyment) to explain aggressive outcomes.
They found that the traders showed a higher degree of competitiveness than the psychopaths -- and that the traders were surprisingly willing to cause harm to their competitors if they thought it would bring them an advantage.
Local density of physicians and hospitals reflects the degree of competitiveness in the local market.
Many birdwatchers add to this a high degree of competitiveness (Oddie 1995; Schaffner 2009).
