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Iterated games are a fundamental component of economic and evolutionary game theory. They describe situations where two players interact repeatedly and have the possibility to use conditional strategies that depend on the outcome of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-12 Christian Hilbe , Martin A. Nowak , Karl Sigmund

Human societies around the world interact with each other by developing and maintaining social norms, and it is critically important to understand how such norms emerge and change. In this work, we define an evolutionary game-theoretic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Soham De , Dana S. Nau , Michele J. Gelfand

We study stochastic evolution of optional games on simple graphs. There are two strategies, A and B, whose interaction is described by a general payoff matrix. In addition there are one or several possibilities to opt out from the game by…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-05-19 Hyeong-Chai Jeong , Seung-Yoon Oh , Benjamin Allen , Martin A. Nowak

We study the evolution of cooperation in structured populations within popular models of social dilemmas, whereby simple coevolutionary rules are introduced that may enhance players abilities to enforce their strategy on the opponent.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-02-16 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Exploiting the mathematical curiosity of intransitive dice, we present a simple theoretical model for co-evolution that captures scales ranging from the genome of the individual to the system-wide emergence of species diversity. We study a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-02 Julius B. Kirkegaard , Kim Sneppen

Learning problems commonly exhibit an interesting feedback mechanism wherein the population data reacts to competing decision makers' actions. This paper formulates a new game theoretic framework for this phenomenon, called "multi-player…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Adhyyan Narang , Evan Faulkner , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Maryam Fazel , Lillian J. Ratliff

Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is the defining concept of evolutionary game theory. It has a fairly unanimously accepted definition for the case of symmetric games which are played in a homogeneous population where all individuals are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-26 Vikash Kumar Dubey , Suman Chakraborty , Arunava Patra , Sagar Chakraborty

Decades of scientific inquiry have sought to understand how evolution fosters cooperation, a concept seemingly at odds with the belief that evolution should produce rational, self-interested individuals. Most previous work has focused on…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-16 Mohammad Salahshour , Iain D. Couzin

Game theory provides a quantitative framework for analyzing the behavior of rational agents. The Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma in particular has become a standard model for studying cooperation and cheating, with cooperation often emerging as…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-18 Alexander J. Stewart , Joshua B. Plotkin

This paper demonstrates that simple yet important characteristics of coevolution can occur in evolutionary algorithms when only a few conditions are met. We find that interaction-based fitness measurements such as fitness (linear) ranking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-07-03 James M Whitacre

In this paper, we formulate an evolutionarymultiple access control game with continuousvariable actions and coupled constraints. We characterize equilibria of the game and show that the pure equilibria are Pareto optimal and also resilient…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Quanyan Zhu , Hamidou Tembine , Tamer Basar

We provide a classification of symmetric three-player games with two strategies and investigate evolutionary and asymptotic stability (in the replicator dynamics) of their Nash equilibria. We discuss similarities and differences between…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Maciej Bukowski , Jacek Miekisz

The most common assumption in evolutionary game theory is that players should adopt a strategy that warrants the highest payoff. However, recent studies indicate that the spatial selection for cooperation is enhanced if an appropriate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-18 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Evolutionary games on graphs describe how strategic interactions and population structure determine evolutionary success, quantified by the probability that a single mutant takes over a population. Graph structures, compared to the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-08 Philipp M. Altrock , Arne Traulsen , Martin A. Nowak

The best-response dynamics is an example of an evolutionary game where players update their strategy in order to maximize their payoff. The main objective of this paper is to study a stochastic spatial version of this game based on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-28 Stephen Evilsizor , Nicolas Lanchier

Eco-evolutionary game dynamics which characterizes the mutual interactions and the coupled evolutions of strategies and environments has been of growing interests in very recent years. Since such feedback loops widely exist in a range of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-03 Xin Wang , Feng Fu

In this paper we extend the framework of evolutionary inspection game put forward recently by the author and coworkers to a large class of conflict interactions dealing with the pressure executed by the major player (or principal) on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Vassili Kolokoltsov

Interacting particle systems of interest in evolutionary game theory introduced in the probability literature consist of variants of the voter model in which each site is occupied by one player. The goal of this paper is to initiate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Jonas Köppl , Nicolas Lanchier , Max Mercer

Evolutionary game theory is used to model the evolution of competing strategies in a population of players. Evolutionary stability of a strategy is a dynamic equilibrium, in which any competing mutated strategy would be wiped out from a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Dharshana Kasthurirathna , Mahendra Piraveenan , Shahadat Uddin

We discover the mechanism for the transition from self-segregation (into opposing groups) to clustering (towards cautious behaviors) in the evolutionary minority game (EMG). The mechanism is illustrated with a statistical mechanics analysis…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Kan Chen , Bing-Hong Wang , Baosheng Yuan