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Ensuring robust decision-making in multi-agent systems is challenging when agents have distinct, possibly conflicting objectives and lack full knowledge of each other's strategies. This is apparent in safety-critical applications such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Francesco Bianchin , Robert Lefringhausen , Elisa Gaetan , Samuel Tesfazgi , Sandra Hirche

This paper presents research comparing the effects of different environments on the outcome of an extended Prisoner's Dilemma, in which agents have the option to abstain from playing the game. We consider three different pure strategies:…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Marcos Cardinot , Maud Gibbons , Colm O'Riordan , Josephine Griffith

The evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma Game (PDG) and the Snowdrift Game (SG) with preferential learning mechanism are studied in the Barab\'asi-Albert network. Simulation results demonstrate that the preferential learning of individuals…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-29 Jie Ren , Wen-Xu Wang , Gang Yan , Bing-Hong Wang

Interactions among individuals in natural populations often occur in a dynamically changing environment. Understanding the role of environmental variation in population dynamics has long been a central topic in theoretical ecology and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-18 Feng Huang , Ming Cao , Long Wang

We propose a framework for adversarial training that relies on a sample rather than a single sample point as the fundamental unit of discrimination. Inspired by discrepancy measures and two-sample tests between probability distributions, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Chengtao Li , David Alvarez-Melis , Keyulu Xu , Stefanie Jegelka , Suvrit Sra

An active line of research has considered games played on networks in which payoffs depend on both a player's individual decision and also the decisions of her neighbors. Such games have been used to model issues including the formation of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Flavio Chierichetti , Jon Kleinberg , Sigal Oren

Recent empirical studies suggest that heavy-tailed distributions of human activities are universal in real social dynamics [Muchnik, \emph{et al.}, Sci. Rep. \textbf{3}, 1783 (2013)]. On the other hand, community structure is ubiquitous in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-14 Zhi-Xi Wu , Zhihai Rong , Han-Xin Yang

We study the interaction between a network designer and an adversary over a dynamical network. The network consists of nodes performing continuous-time distributed averaging. The adversary strategically disconnects a set of links to prevent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Ali Khanafer , Tamer Başar

Adversarial attacks to graph analytics are gaining increased attention. To date, two lines of countermeasures have been proposed to resist various graph adversarial attacks from the perspectives of either graph per se or graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xinxin Fan , Wenxiong Chen , Mengfan Li , Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu

We introduce a novel adversarial model for scheduling with explorable uncertainty. In this model, the processing time of a job can potentially be reduced (by an a priori unknown amount) by testing the job. Testing a job $j$ takes one unit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Christoph Dürr , Thomas Erlebach , Nicole Megow , Julie Meißner

The commonly used accumulated payoff scheme is not invariant with respect to shifts of payoff values when applied locally in degree-inhomogeneous population structures. We propose a suitably modified payoff scheme and we show both formally…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-11-24 Leslie Luthi , Marco Tomassini , Enea Pestelacci

We study the evolution of cooperation in the spatial prisoner's dilemma game where players are allowed to establish new interactions with others. By employing a simple coevolutionary rule entailing only two crucial parameters, we find that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-12-30 Chunyan Zhang , Jianlei Zhang , Guangming Xie , Long Wang , Matjaz Perc

In this work, we study the social learning problem, in which agents of a networked system collaborate to detect the state of the nature based on their private signals. A novel distributed graphical evolutionary game theoretic learning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Xuanyu Cao , K. J. Ray Liu

A modified spatial prisoner's dilemma game with voluntary participation in Newman-Watts small-world networks is studied. Some reasonable ingredients are introduced to the game evolutionary dynamics: each agent in the network is a pure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhi-Xi Wu , Xin-Jian Xu , Yong chen , Ying-Hai Wang

Cooperation within asymmetric populations has garnered significant attention in evolutionary games. This paper explores cooperation evolution in populations with weak and strong players, using a game model where players choose between…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-03-12 Hao Guo , Chen Shen , Rongcheng Zou , Pin Tao , Yuanchun Shi , Zhen Wang , Junliang Xing

Originating in evolutionary game theory, the class of "zero-determinant" strategies enables a player to unilaterally enforce linear payoff relationships in simple repeated games. An upshot of this kind of payoff constraint is that it can…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-26 Nikos Dimou , Alex McAvoy

In real-life complex systems, individuals often encounter multiple social dilemmas that cannot be effectively captured using a single-game model. Furthermore, the environment and limited resources both play a crucial role in shaping…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-15 Chengbin Sun , Alfonso de Miguel-Arribas , Chaoqian Wang , Haoxiang Xia , Yamir Moreno

Wealthy individuals may be less tempted to defect than those with comparatively low payoffs. To take this into consideration, we introduce coevolutionary success-driven multigames in structured populations. While the core game is always the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-17 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

We study effects of strategy-dependent time delays on equilibria of evolving populations. It is well known that time delays may cause oscillations in dynamical systems. Here we report a novel behavior. We show that microscopic models of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-13 Jacek Miȩkisz , Marek Bodnar

The maintenance of cooperation in the presence of spatial restrictions has been studied extensively. It is well-established that the underlying graph topology can significantly influence the outcome of games on graphs. Maintenance of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-27 Saptarshi Sinha , Deep Nath , Soumen Roy