Self-organization of common good usage and an application to Internet services.

ABSTRACT: Natural and human-made common goods present key challenges due to their susceptibility to degradation, overuse, and congestion. We explore the self-organization of their usage when individuals have access to several available commons but limited information on them. We propose an extension of the Win-Stay, Lose-Shift (WSLS) strategy for such systems, in which individuals use a resource repeatedly until they are unsuccessful and then shift randomly. This simple and completely decentralized strategy promotes balanced resource use based solely on individual experience, as it does not require communication between individuals nor a governing institution to coordinate usage. Selective individuals who retain information on their usage and accordingly adapt their tolerance to failure in each comm

SUBMITTER: Pires DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12707203 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature