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A common assumption employed in most previous works on evolutionary game dynamics is that every individual player has full knowledge about and full access to the complete set of available strategies. In realistic social, economical, and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-11-14 Jun-Jie Jiang , Yu-Zhong Chen , Zi-Gang Huang , Ying-Cheng Lai

The rock-paper-scissor game -- which is characterized by three strategies R,P,S, satisfying the non-transitive relations S excludes P, P excludes R, and R excludes S -- serves as a simple prototype for studying more complex non-transitive…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-16 Sebastian J. Schreiber , Timothy P. Killingback

We explore how strategic leaps alter the classic rock-paper-scissors dynamics in spatially structured populations. In our model, individuals can expend energy reserves to jump toward regions with a high density of individuals of the species…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-23 J. Menezes , R. Barbalho , Y. Sun

This work investigates how biodiversity is affected in a cyclic spatial May-Leonard model with hierarchical and non-hierarchical rules. Here we propose a generalization of the traditional rock-paper-scissors model by considering highly…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-08 D. Bazeia , M. J. B. Ferreira , B. F. de Oliveira , W. A. dos Santos

Feedback loops between population dynamics of individuals and their ecological environment are ubiquitously found in nature, and have shown profound effects on the resulting eco-evolutionary dynamics. Incorporating linear environmental…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-01 Xin Wang , Zhiming Zheng , Feng Fu

We study diffusion on a multilayer network where the contact dynamics between the nodes is governed by a random process and where the waiting time distribution differs for edges from different layers. We study the impact on a random walk of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-18 Martin Gueuning , Sibo Cheng , Renaud Lambiotte , Jean-Charles Delvenne

In this work we investigate the development of stable dynamical structures along interfaces separating domains belonging to enemy partnerships, in the context of cyclic predator-prey models with an even number of species $N \ge 8$. We use…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 P. P. Avelino , D. Bazeia , L. Losano , J. Menezes , B. F. Oliveira

The well-known game of Rock--Paper--Scissors can be used as a simple model of competition between three species. When modelled in continuous time using differential equations, the resulting system contains a heteroclinic cycle between the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Claire M Postlethwaite , Alastair M Rucklidge

Understanding the mechanisms that govern species coexistence and biodiversity represents a fundamental challenge in ecology. This study extends the classic rock-paper-scissors model by introducing a context-dependent higher-order…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-03 Chunpeng Du , Haoshu Wang , Yikang Lu , Lijuan Qin , Junpyo Park

Iterated games provide a framework to describe social interactions among groups of individuals. Recent work stimulated by the discovery of "zero-determinant" strategies has rapidly expanded our ability to analyze such interactions. This…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-12 Alexander J. Stewart , Todd L. Parsons , Joshua B. Plotkin

We establish a theoretical framework to address evolutionary dynamics of spatial games under strong selection. As the selection intensity tends to infinity, strategy competition unfolds in the deterministic way of winners taking all. We…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-20 Te Wu , Feng Fu , Long Wang

Recent work has shown that pairwise interactions may not be sufficient to fully model ecological dynamics in the wild. In this letter, we consider a replicator dynamic that takes both pairwise and triadic interactions into consideration…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-17 Christopher Griffin , Rongling Wu

Cyclic (rock-paper-scissors-type) population models serve to mimic complex species interactions. Focusing on a paradigmatic three-species model with mutations in one dimension, we observe an interplay between equilibrium and non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-07 Anton A. Winkler , Tobias Reichenbach , Erwin Frey

Population structure induced by both spatial embedding and more general networks of interaction, such as model social networks, have been shown to have a fundamental effect on the dynamics and outcome of evolutionary games. These effects…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Gergely J Szollosi , Imre Derenyi

In recent years, there has been growing interest in studying evolutionary games with environmental feedback. Previous studies exclusively focus on two-player games. However, extension to multi-player game is needed to study problems such as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-24 Yanxuan Shao , Xin Wang , Feng Fu

We consider a two-dimensional model of three species in rock-paper-scissors competition and study the self-organisation of the population into fascinating spiraling patterns. Within our individual-based metapopulation formulation, the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-13 Mauro Mobilia , Alastair M. Rucklidge , Bartosz Szczesny

Natural selection favors the more successful individuals. This is the elementary premise that pervades common models of evolution. Under extreme conditions, however, the process may no longer be probabilistic. Those that meet certain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-07 Attila Szolnoki , Alberto Antonioni , Marco Tomassini , Matjaz Perc

The Rock-Paper-Scissors (RPS) game is a widely used model system in game theory. Evolutionary game theory predicts the existence of persistent cycles in the evolutionary trajectories of the RPS game, but experimental evidence has remained…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-08-13 Bin Xu , Hai-Jun Zhou , Zhijian Wang

Cooperation is a difficult proposition in the face of Darwinian selection. Those that defect have an evolutionary advantage over cooperators who should therefore die out. However, spatial structure enables cooperators to survive through the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-02 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

The spatial rock-paper-scissors ecosystem, where three species interact cyclically, is a model example of how spatial structure can maintain biodiversity. We here consider such a system for a broad range of interaction rates. When one…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 Jeppe Juul , Kim Sneppen , Joachim Mathiesen