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In this paper we extend the investigation of cooperation in some classical evolutionary games on populations were the network of interactions among individuals is of the scale-free type. We show that the update rule, the payoff computation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Tomassini , L. Luthi , E. Pestelacci

Web sites where users create and rate content as well as form networks with other users display long-tailed distributions in many aspects of behavior. Using behavior on one such community site, Essembly, we propose and evaluate plausible…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Tad Hogg , Gabor Szabo

As Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly engage with human society, how well do we understand their prosocial behaviors? We (1) investigate how LLM agents' prosocial behaviors can be induced by different personas and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ji Ma

We investigate the distributions of epsilon-drawdowns and epsilon-drawups of the most liquid futures financial contracts of the world at time scales of 30 seconds. The epsilon-drawdowns (resp. epsilon- drawups) generalise the notion of runs…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-04-08 Vladimir Filimonov , Didier Sornette

Upstream reciprocity (also called generalized reciprocity) is a putative mechanism for cooperation in social dilemma situations with which players help others when they are helped by somebody else. It is a type of indirect reciprocity.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-10-11 Naoki Masuda

Motivated by a host of empirical evidences revealing the bursty character of human dynamics, we develop a model of human activity based on successive switching between an hesitation state and a decision-realization state, with residency…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-15 Alexander V. Zhukov , Sergei Fedotov , Roland Bouffanais

Resource sharing outside the kinship bonds is rare. Besides humans, it occurs in chimpanzee, wild dogs and hyenas as well as in vampire bats. Resource sharing is an instance of animal cooperation, where an animal gives away part of the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-29 Andrea Mazzolini , Antonio Celani

Oscillatory behaviors are ubiquitous in nature and the human society. However, most previous works fail to reproduce them in the two-strategy game-theoretical models. Here we show that oscillatory behaviors naturally emerge if incomplete…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-27 Jing Zhang , Zhao Li , Jiqiang Zhang , Lin Ma , Guozhong Zheng , Li Chen

Recently, increasing empirical evidence indicates the extensive existence of heavy tails in the interevent time distributions of various human behaviors. Based on the queuing theory, the Barab\'asi model and its variations suggest the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-07-26 Xiao-Pu Han , Tao Zhou , Bing-Hong Wang

We examine behavior in an experimental collaboration game that incorporates endogenous network formation. The environment is modeled as a generalization of the voluntary contributions mechanism. By varying the information structure in a…

General Economics · Economics 2024-04-17 Philip Solimine , Luke Boosey

We present elliptical processes, a family of non-parametric probabilistic models that subsume Gaussian processes and Student's t processes. This generalization includes a range of new heavy-tailed behaviors while retaining computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Maria Bånkestad , Jens Sjölund , Jalil Taghia , Thomas B. Schöon

The recent availability of huge high resolution datasets on human activities has revealed the heavy-tailed nature of the interevent time distributions. In social simulations of interacting agents the standard approach has been to use…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-24 Juan Fernández-Gracia , Víctor M. Eguíluz , Maxi San Miguel

One of the most direct human mechanisms of promoting cooperation is rewarding it. We study the effect of sharing a reward among cooperators in the most stringent form of social dilemma, namely the Prisoner's Dilemma. Specifically, for a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-02-02 J. A. Cuesta , R. Jimenez , H. Lugo , A. Sanchez

A number of human activities exhibit a bursty pattern, namely periods of very high activity that are followed by rest periods. Records of these processes generate time series of events whose inter-event times follow a probability…

When modeling a directed social network, one choice is to use the traditional preferential attachment model, which generates power-law tail distributions. In a traditional directed preferential attachment, every new edge is added…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Tiandong Wang , Sidney I. Resnick

Non-reciprocal interactions are a defining feature of many complex systems, biological, ecological, and technological, often pushing them far from equilibrium and enabling rich dynamical responses. These asymmetries can arise at multiple…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Anna Poggialini , Serena Di Santo , Pablo Villegas , Andrea Gabrielli , Miguel A. Muñoz

Bursty dynamics of agents is shown to appear at criticality or in extended Griffiths phases, even in case of Poisson processes. I provide numerical evidence for power-law type of inter-communication time distributions by simulating the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-03 Géza Ódor

Experimental studies have shown the ubiquity of altruistic behavior in human societies. The social structure is a fundamental ingredient to understand the degree of altruism displayed by the members of a society, in contrast to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-05-27 Víctor M. Eguíluz , Claudio J. Tessone

Nguyen et al. [1] introduced altruistic hedonic games in which agents' utilities depend not only on their own preferences but also on those of their friends in the same coalition. We propose to extend their model to coalition formation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Anna Maria Kerkmann , Simon Cramer , Jörg Rothe

Viral campaigns on the Internet may follow variety of models, depending on the content, incentives, personal attitudes of sender and recipient to the content and other factors. Due to the fact that the knowledge of the campaign specifics is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Jarosław Jankowski , Radosław Michalski , Przemysław Kazienko