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A new approach for the description of phenomena of social aggregation is suggested. On the basis of psychological concepts (as for instance social norms and cultural coordinates), we deduce a general mechanism for the social aggregation in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-04-29 Daniele Vilone , Andrea Guazzini

We report the results of a game-theoretic experiment with human players who solve the problems of increasing complexity by cooperating in groups of increasing size. Our experimental environment is set up to make it complicated for players…

Multiplayer online gaming has witnessed an explosion in popularity over the past two decades. However, security issues continue to give rise to in-game cheating, deterring honest gameplay, detracting from user experience, and ultimately…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yaqi Cai , Konstantinos Markantonakis , Carlton Shepherd

We study the problem of imitation learning from demonstrations of multiple coordinating agents. One key challenge in this setting is that learning a good model of coordination can be difficult, since coordination is often implicit in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Hoang M. Le , Yisong Yue , Peter Carr , Patrick Lucey

In a basketball game, scoring efficiency holds significant importance due to the numerous offensive possessions per game. Enhancing scoring efficiency necessitates effective collaboration among players with diverse playing styles. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Kazuhiro Yamada , Keisuke Fujii

With the prospect of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents, studying their tendency for cooperative behavior becomes an increasingly relevant topic. This study is inspired by the super-additive cooperation theory, where the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Filippo Tonini , Lukas Galke

Online social interactions in multiplayer games can be supportive and positive or toxic and harmful; however, few methods can easily assess interpersonal interaction quality in games. We use behavioural traces to predict affiliation between…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Julian Frommel , Valentin Sagl , Ansgar E. Depping , Colby Johanson , Matthew K. Miller , Regan L. Mandryk

Cheating in online games poses significant threats to the gaming industry, yet most prior research has concentrated on Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs). Competitive genres-such as Multiplayer Online Battle Arena…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jeuk Kang , Jungheum Park

The emergence of collective cooperation in competitive environments is a well-known phenomenon in biology, economics, and social systems. While most evolutionary game models focus on the evolution of strategies for a fixed game, how…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-01 Onkar Sadekar , Andrea Civilini , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Vito Latora , Federico Battiston

With predictive models becoming prevalent, companies are expanding the types of data they gather. As a result, the collected datasets consist not only of simple numerical features but also more complex objects such as time series, images,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sebastian Chwilczyński , Dariusz Brzezinski

A matching game is a cooperative profit game defined on an edge-weighted graph, where the players are the vertices and the profit of a coalition is the maximum weight of matchings in the subgraph induced by the coalition. A population…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Han Xiao , Qizhi Fang

The outcome of some football matches has benefited both teams at the expense of a third team because head-to-head results were used for breaking ties. Inspired by these examples, our mathematical analysis identifies all possible collusion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-20 László Csató

Cooperative games are an important class of problems in game theory, where the goal is to distribute a value among a set of players who are allowed to cooperate by forming coalitions. An outcome of the game is given by an allocation vector…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Zhuan Khye Koh , Laura Sanità

To address the safety and efficiency issues of vehicles at multi-lane merging zones, a cooperative decision-making framework is designed for connected automated vehicles (CAVs) using a coalitional game approach. Firstly, a motion prediction…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Peng Hang , Chen Lv , Chao Huang , Yang Xing , Zhongxu Hu

This paper investigates the potential benefits of cooperation in scenarios where finitely many agents compete for shared resources, leading to congestion and thereby reduced rewards. By appropriate coordination the members of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Riya Sultana , Veeraruna Kavitha

Multiplayer online battle arena has become a popular game genre. It also received increasing attention from our research community because they provide a wealth of information about human interactions and behaviors. A major problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Anna Sapienza , Alessandro Bessi , Emilio Ferrara

An insider is defined as a team member who covertly deviates from the team's optimal collaborative control strategy in pursuit of a private objective, while maintaining an outward appearance of cooperation. Such insider threats can severely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Gehui Xu , Kaiwen Chen , Thomas Parisini , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Information sharing between individuals is crucial to improve performance in collective tasks. However, in a competitive world, individuals may be reluctant to share information with the others, and it is still unclear how the presence of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-04 Ye Wang , Andrea Civilini , Anzhi Sheng , Xiaojie Chen , Long Wang , Vito Latora

A game theoretic distributed decision making approach is presented for the problem of control effort allocation in a robotic team based on a novel variant of fictitious play. The proposed learning process allows the robots to accomplish…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Michalis Smyrnakis , Sandor M. Veres

Vehicle platooning has been a promising solution for improving traffic efficiency and throughput. However, a failure in a single vehicle, including communication loss with neighboring vehicles, can significantly disrupt platoon performance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Farid Mafi , Mohammad Pirani