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Evolutionary game theory has been an important tool for describing economic and social behaviour for decades. Approximate mean value equations describing the time evolution of strategy concentrations can be derived from the players'…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-02-10 Mathis Antony , Degang Wu , K Y Szeto

Mesh numbering is a critical issue in Finite Element Methods, as the computational cost of one analysis is highly dependent on the order of the nodes of the mesh. This paper presents some preliminary investigations on the problem of mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2007-06-12 Francis Sourd , Marc Schoenauer

Creating and evaluating games manually is an arduous and laborious task. Procedural content generation can aid by creating game artifacts, but usually not an entire game. Evolutionary game design, which combines evolutionary algorithms with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Lana Bertoldo Rossato , Leonardo Boaventura Bombardelli , Anderson Rocha Tavares

A significantly under-explored area of evolutionary optimization in the literature is the study of optimization methodologies that can evolve along with the problems solved. Particularly, present evolutionary optimization approaches…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Liang Feng , Yew Soon Ong , Ah Hwee Tan , Ivor Wai-Hung Tsang

A new mathematical model for evolutionary games on graphs is proposed to extend the classical replicator equation to finite populations of players organized on a network with generic topology. Classical results from game theory,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Dario Madeo , Chiara Mocenni

Using semi-tensor product (STP) of matrices, the profile evolutionary equation (PEE) for repeated finite games is obtained. By virtue of PEE, the zero-determinant (ZD) strategies are developed for general finite games. A formula is then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Daizhan Cheng , Changxi Li

Evolutionary game theory is a framework to formalize the evolution of collectives ("populations") of competing agents that are playing a game and, after every round, update their strategies to maximize individual payoffs. There are two…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-01-05 Sergey Denisov , Olga Vershinina , Juzar Thingna , Peter Hänggi , Mikhail Ivanchenko

Learning in strategy games (e.g. StarCraft, poker) requires the discovery of diverse policies. This is often achieved by iteratively training new policies against existing ones, growing a policy population that is robust to exploit. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Siqi Liu , Luke Marris , Daniel Hennes , Josh Merel , Nicolas Heess , Thore Graepel

We describe a formulation of multi-agents operating within a Cyber-Physical System, resulting in collaborative or adversarial games. We show that the non-determinism inherent in the communication medium between agents and the underlying…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Warisa Sritriratanarak , Paulo Garcia

We present new techniques for synthesizing programs through sequences of mutations. Among these are (1) a method of local scoring assigning a score to each expression in a program, allowing us to more precisely identify buggy code, (2)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Max Vistrup

This work is concerned with the study of the Game of Graph Nim -- a class of two-player combinatorial games -- on graphs with $4$ edges. To each edge of such a graph is assigned a positive-integer-valued edge-weight, and during each round…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Sayar Karmakar , Moumanti Podder , Souvik Roy , Soumyarup Sadhukhan

We develop a generic computational model that can be used effectively for establishing the existence of winning strategies for concrete finite combinatorial games. Our modelling is (equational) logic-based involving advanced techniques from…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Răzvan Diaconescu

Evolutionary algorithms have been used in the digital art scene since the 1970s. A popular application of genetic algorithms is to optimize the procedural placement of vector graphic primitives to resemble a given painting. In recent years,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Yingtao Tian , David Ha

The interactions between players of prisoner's dilemma (PD) game are reconstructed with evolutionary game data. All participants play the game with their counterparts and gain corresponding rewards during each round of the game. However,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-24 Hong-Li Zeng , Shu-Xuan Wang , Yan-Dong Guo , Shao-Meng Qin

Regular expression is important for many natural language processing tasks especially when used to deal with unstructured and semi-structured data. This work focuses on automatically generating regular expressions and proposes a novel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Desheng Wang , Jiawei Liu , Xiang Qi , Baolin Sun , Peng Zhang

Existing multi-strategy adaptive differential evolution (DE) commonly involves trials of multiple strategies and then rewards better-performing ones with more resources. However, the trials of an exploitative or explorative strategy may…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Sheng Xin Zhang , Wing Shing Chan , Kit Sang Tang , Shao Yong Zheng

Evolution gave rise to human and animal intelligence here on Earth. We argue that the path to developing artificial human-like-intelligence will pass through mimicking the evolutionary process in a nature-like simulation. In Nature, there…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-07 João P. Abrantes , Arnaldo J. Abrantes , Frans A. Oliehoek

In this paper, I model and study the process of natural selection between all possible mixed strategies in classical two-player two-strategy games. I derive and solve an equation that is a natural generalization of the Taylor-Jonker…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-21 Georgy Karev

This paper introduces Multi-population Ensemble Genetic Programming (MEGP), a computational intelligence framework that integrates cooperative coevolution and the multiview learning paradigm to address classification challenges in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mohammad Sadegh Khorshidi , Navid Yazdanjue , Hassan Gharoun , Mohammad Reza Nikoo , Fang Chen , Amir H. Gandomi

To investigate the origin of cooperative behaviors, we developed an evolutionary model of sequential strategies and tested our model with computer simulations. The sequential strategies represented by stochastic machines were evaluated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Jin Hong Kuan , Aadesh Salecha