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Multi agent strategies in mixed cooperative-competitive environments can be hard to craft by hand because each agent needs to coordinate with its teammates while competing with its opponents. Learning based algorithms are appealing but many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Ankur Deka , Katia Sycara

The usual definitions of algorithmic fairness focus on population-level statistics, such as demographic parity or equal opportunity. However, in many social or economic contexts, fairness is not perceived globally, but locally, through an…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-14 Arthur Charpentier

Innovation is fundamental for development and provides a competitive advantage for societies. It is the process of creating more complex technologies, ideas, or protocols from existing ones. While innovation may be created by single agents…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-16 Fatemeh Zarei , Jan Ryckebusch , Koen Schoors , Luis E C Rocha

We consider a sharing economy network where agents embedded in a graph share their resources. This is a fundamental model that abstracts numerous emerging applications of collaborative consumption systems. The agents generate a random…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Leonidas Georgiadis , George Iosifidis , Leandros Tassiulas

Systems composed of distinct complex networks are present in many real-world environments, from society to ecological systems. In the present paper, we propose a network model obtained as a consequence of interactions between two species…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-08-08 Luis Enrique Correa da Rocha , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

The main problem we address in this paper is whether function determines form when a society of agents organizes itself for some purpose or whether the organizing method is more important than the functionality in determining the structure…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Tanya Araujo , R. Vilela Mendes

Consider a set of agents who play a network game repeatedly. Agents may not know the network. They may even be unaware that they are interacting with other agents in a network. Possibly, they just understand that their payoffs depend on an…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-07-26 Pierpaolo Battigalli , Fabrizio Panebianco , Paolo Pin

Real world complex networks often exhibit multiplex structure, connecting entities from different aspects of physical systems such as social, transportation and biological networks. Little is known about general properties of such networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Blaž Škrlj , Benjamin Renoust

Game-theoretic interactions with AI agents could differ from traditional human-human interactions in various ways. One such difference is that it may be possible to simulate an AI agent (for example because its source code is known), which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Vojtech Kovarik , Caspar Oesterheld , Vincent Conitzer

Bias exists in how we pick leaders, who we perceive as being influential, and who we interact with, not only in society, but in organizational contexts. Drawing from leadership emergence and social influence theories, we investigate…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Andria L. Smith , Simon Heuschkel , Ksenia Keplinger , Charley M. Wu

In many real-world situations, data is distributed across multiple self-interested agents. These agents can collaborate to build a machine learning model based on data from multiple agents, potentially reducing the error each experiences.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Kate Donahue , Jon Kleinberg

Understanding the emergence of prosocial behaviours (e.g., cooperation and trust) among self-interested agents is an important problem in many disciplines. Network structure and institutional incentives (e.g., punishing antisocial agents)…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-29 Ik Soo Lim , Valerio Capraro

As an alternative view to the graph formation models in the statistical physics community, we introduce graph formation models using \textit{network formation} through selfish competition as an approach to modeling graphs with particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Shaun Lichter , Christopher Griffin , Terry Friesz

Network analysis provides powerful tools to learn about a variety of social systems. However, most analyses implicitly assume that the considered relational data is error-free, reliable and accurately reflects the system to be analysed.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Felix I. Stamm , Leonie Neuhäuser , Florian Lemmerich , Michael T. Schaub , Markus Strohmaier

We show that the resolution of social dilemmas on random graphs and scale-free networks is facilitated by imitating not the strategy of better performing players but rather their emotions. We assume sympathy and envy as the two emotions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-07 Attila Szolnoki , Neng-Gang Xie , Ye Ye , Matjaz Perc

Various theoretical and empirical studies have accounted for why humans cooperate in competitive environments. Although prior work has revealed that network structure and multiplex interactions can promote cooperation, most theory assumes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-05 Jnanajyoti Bhaumik , Naoki Masuda

Can large language model (LLM) agents reproduce the complex social dynamics that characterize human online behavior -- shaped by homophily, reciprocity, and social validation -- and what memory and learning mechanisms enable such dynamics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Philipp J. Schneider , Lin Tian , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

The emergence of cooperation in the groups of interacting agents is one of the most fascinating phenomena observed in many complex systems studied in social science and ecology, even in the situations where one would expect the agent to use…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-12 Jarosław Adam Miszczak

We construct a model of social behaviour through the dynamics of interacting agents. The agents undergo game-theoretic interactions where each agent can decide to lend support to particular other agents or otherwise, and agents are rewarded…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Wan Ahmad Tajuddin Wan Abdullah , A. K. M. Azhar

We consider processes on social networks that can potentially involve three factors: homophily, or the formation of social ties due to matching individual traits; social contagion, also known as social influence; and the causal effect of an…

Applications · Statistics 2022-03-18 Cosma Rohilla Shalizi , Andrew C. Thomas