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The very notion of social network implies that linked individuals interact repeatedly with each other. This allows them not only to learn successful strategies and adapt to them, but also to condition their own behavior on the behavior of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Luca Dall'Asta , Matteo Marsili , Paolo Pin

We study a coevolutionary public goods game on a dynamic hypergraph, where an individual's payoff directly determines the number of hyperedges it can join. In the proposed mechanism, nodes adjust their participation according to the group…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-27 Yichao Yao , Yuji Zhang , Juan Wu , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

In a large population, the agents temporally form group of the Public Goods Game (PGG) one after another, and size of one group is randomly distributed at $g\in [g_l,g_h]$. Players in it have two strategies to be chosen to cooperate, or to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-18 Hong-Bin Zhang , Deng-Ping Tang

The evolution of cooperation has been a perennial problem for evolutionary biology because cooperation is undermined by selfish cheaters (or "free riders") that profit from cooperators but do not invest any resources themselves. In a purely…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2010-12-17 Arend Hintze , Christoph Adami

The environment has a strong influence on a population's evolutionary dynamics. Driven by both intrinsic and external factors, the environment is subject to continual change in nature. To capture an ever-changing environment, we consider a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-18 Qi Su , Alex McAvoy , Long Wang , Martin A. Nowak

Understanding the emergence and stability of cooperation in public goods games is important due to its applications in fields such as biology, economics, and social science. However, a gap remains in comprehending how mutations, both…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Nataliya A. Balabanova , Manh Hong Duong , The Anh Han

Community organization permeates both social and biological complex systems. To study its interplay with behavior emergence, we model mobile structured populations with multiplayer interactions. We derive general analytical methods for…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-28 Diogo L. Pires , Mark Broom

Theoretical models suggest that social networks influence the evolution of cooperation, but to date there have been few experimental studies. Observational data suggest that a wide variety of behaviors may spread in human social networks,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-07-26 James H. Fowler , Nicholas A. Christakis

Repeated small dynamic networks are integral to studies in evolutionary game theory, where networked public goods games offer novel insights into human behaviors. Building on these findings, it is necessary to develop a statistical model…

Applications · Statistics 2025-11-26 Hiroyasu Ando , Akihiro Nishi , Mark S. Handcock

In a public goods game, every player chooses whether or not to buy a good that all neighboring players will have access to. We consider a setting in which the good is indivisible, neighboring players are out-neighbors in a directed graph,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Argyrios Deligkas , Gregory Gutin , Mark Jones , Philip R. Neary , Anders Yeo

In the traditional setup of public goods game all players are involved in every available groups and the mutual benefit is shared among competing cooperator and defector strategies. But in real life situations the group formation of players…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-10-19 Attila Szolnoki , Xiaojie Chen

We study a class of non-cooperative aggregative games -- denoted as \emph{social purpose games} -- in which the payoffs depend separately on a player's own strategy (individual benefits) and on a function of the strategy profile which is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Robert P. Gilles , Lina Mallozzi , Roberta Messalli

Prevalence of cooperation within groups of selfish individuals is puzzling in that it contradicts with the basic premise of natural selection. Favoring players with higher fitness, the latter is key for understanding the challenges faced by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 Matjaz Perc , Attila Szolnoki

Recent paradigm shifts from imitation learning to reinforcement learning (RL) is shown to be productive in understanding human behaviors. In the RL paradigm, individuals search for optimal strategies through interaction with the environment…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-20 Guozhong Zheng , Jiqiang Zhang , Shengfeng Deng , Weiran Cai , Li Chen

Addressing the question of how to achieve optimal decision-making under risk and uncertainty is crucial for enhancing the capabilities of artificial agents that collaborate with or support humans. In this work, we address this question in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Nicole Orzan , Erman Acar , Davide Grossi , Patrick Mannion , Roxana Rădulescu

It is a challenging task to reach global cooperation among self-interested agents, which often requires sophisticated design or usage of incentives. For example, we may apply supervisors or referees who are able to detect and punish…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-20 Ting Ling , Zhang Li , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

We study interpersonal trust by means of the all-or-nothing public goods game between agents on a network. The agents are endowed with the simple yet adaptive learning rule, exponential moving average, by which they estimate the behavior of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Benedikt Valentin Meylahn

Complex social behaviors lie at the heart of many of the challenges facing evolutionary biology, sociology, economics, and beyond. For evolutionary biologists in particular the question is often how such behaviors can arise \textit{de novo}…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-18 Alexander J. Stewart , Joshua B. Plotkin

Inspired by the fact that people have diverse propensities to punish wrongdoers, we study a spatial public goods game with defectors and different types of punishing cooperators. During the game, cooperators punish defectors with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-14 Xiaojie Chen , Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

The game interactions among individuals in nature are often uncertain and dynamically evolving, significantly influencing the persistence of cooperation. However, it remains a formidable challenge to effectively characterize these dynamic…

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