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We focus on the heterogeneity of social networks and its role to the emergence of prevailing cooperation and sustaining cooperators. The social networks are representative of the interaction relationships between players and their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Feng Fu , Lianghuan Liu , Long Wang

The emergence of complex networks from evolutionary games is studied occurring when agents are allowed to switch interaction partners. For this purpose a coevolutionary iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game is defined on a random network with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger Ebel , Stefan Bornholdt

Coevolution between strategy and network structure is established as a means to arrive at optimal conditions for resolving social dilemmas. Yet recent research highlights that the interdependence between networks may be just as important as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-11 Zhen Wang , Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

The world in which we are living is a huge network of networks and should be described by interdependent networks. The interdependence between networks significantly affects the evolutionary dynamics of cooperation on them. Meanwhile, due…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-19 Baokui Wang , Zhenhua Pei , Long Wang

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

Understanding cooperation in social dilemmas requires models that capture the complexity of real-world interactions. While network frameworks have provided valuable insights to model the evolution of cooperation, they are unable to encode…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-15 Onkar Sadekar , Andrea Civilini , Vito Latora , Federico Battiston

Understanding the role of network structure in the evolution of cooperation is a key research goal at the intersection between physics and biology. Recent studies have particularly focused on multiplex networks given that multiple social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-27 Hirofumi Takesue

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

Recent research has identified interactions between networks as crucial for the outcome of evolutionary games taking place on them. While the consensus is that interdependence does promote cooperation by means of organizational complexity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-23 Zhen Wang , Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

The evolution and long-term sustenance of cooperation has consistently piqued scholarly interest across the disciplines of evolutionary biology and social sciences. Previous theoretical and experimental studies on collective risk social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-23 Shijia Hua , Zitong Hui , Linjie Liu

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

A generic property of biological, social and economical networks is their ability to evolve in time, creating and suppressing interactions. We approach this issue within the framework of an adaptive network of agents playing a Prisoner's…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-10-20 Martin G. Zimmermann , Victor M. Eguiluz , Maxi San Miguel

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

A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that social and cooperative behavior can be affected by cognitive and neurological factors, suggesting the existence of state-based decision-making mechanisms that may have emerged by…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-23 Zoran Utkovski , Viktor Stojkoski , Lasko Basnarkov , Ljupco Kocarev

Individual cooperative strategy influences the surrounding dynamic population, which in turn affects cooperative strategy. To better model this phenomenon, we develop a Markov decision chain based game transitions model and examine the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-30 Chaoyang Luo , Yuji Zhang , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

We consider a finite structured population of mobile individuals that strategically explore a network using a Markov movement model and interact with each other via a public goods game. We extend the model of Erovenko et al. (2019) from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-11 Igor V. Erovenko , Mark Broom

Evolutionary game theory, encompassing discrete, continuous, and mixed strategies, is pivotal for understanding cooperation dynamics. Discrete strategies involve deterministic actions with a fixed probability of one, whereas continuous…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-13 Zehua Si , Zhixue He , Chen Shen , Jun Tanimoto

Cooperation is a major factor in the evolution of human societies. The structure of human social networks, which affects the dynamics of cooperation and other interpersonal phenomena, have common structural signatures. One of these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Babak Fotouhi , Naghmeh Momeni , Benjamin Allen , Martin A. Nowak

The evolution of cooperation among unrelated individuals in human and animal societies remains a challenging issue across disciplines. It is an important subject also in the evolutionary game theory to research how cooperation arises. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-23 Norihito Toyota

We consider the prisoner's dilemma being played repeatedly on a dynamic network, where agents may choose their actions as well as their co-players. This leads to co-evolution of network structure and strategy patterns of the players.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-06-26 Christoly Biely , Klaus Dragosits , Stefan Thurner