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When individuals interact in groups, the evolution of cooperation is traditionally modeled using the framework of public goods games. These models often assume that the return of the public good depends linearly on the fraction of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-03 Christoph Hauert , Alex McAvoy

Over the past few decades, many works have studied the evolutionary dynamics of continuous games. However, previous works have primarily focused on two-player games with pairwise interactions. Indeed, group interactions rather than pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-10 Jing Luo , Duozi Lin , Xiaojie Chen , Attila Szolnoki

The evolutionary dynamics of the Public Goods game addresses the emergence of cooperation within groups of individuals. However, the Public Goods game on large populations of interconnected individuals has been usually modeled without any…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Gómez-Gardeñes , M. Romance , R. Criado , D. Vilone , A. Sánchez

In this manuscript we explore the onset of cooperative traits in the Public Goods game. This well-known game involves N-agent interactions and thus reproduces a large number of social scenarios in which cooperation appears to be essential.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-22 Carlos Gracia-Lazaro , Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Luis Mario Floria , Yamir Moreno

How evolution favors cooperation is a fundamental issue in social and economic systems. In the business world, actively selecting a suitable project is usually helpful for a businessman to be in an advantageous position. By incorporating…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-19 Li-Xin Zhong , Wen-Juan Xu , Rong-Da Chen , Yun-Xin He , Tian Qiu , Fei Ren , Yong-Dong Shi , Chen-Yang Zhong

Studying social dilemmas prompts the question of how cooperation can emerge in situations where individuals are expected to act selfishly. Here, in the framework of the one-shot Public Goods Game (PGG), we introduce the concept that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-09 Lucas S. Flores , The Anh Han

The basic social dilemma is frequently captured by a public goods game where participants decide simultaneously whether to support a common pool or not and after the enhanced contributions are distributed uniformly among all competitors.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-21 Attila Szolnoki , Xiaojie Chen

The evolution of cooperation is a central enigma in evolutionary game theory. Traditionally, the combination of pairwise networks and repeated Public Goods Games with a single state fails to adequately describe realistic group interaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-25 Nankun Wei , Xiaojin Xiong , Qin Li , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

The fact that individuals will most likely behave differently in different situations begets the introduction of conditional strategies. Inspired by this, we study the evolution of cooperation in the spatial public goods game, where besides…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-08 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Cooperation and defection may be considered as two extreme responses to a social dilemma. Yet the reality is much less clear-cut. Between the two extremes lies an interval of ambivalent choices, which may be captured theoretically by means…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-07-02 Xiaojie Chen , Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc , Long Wang

According to evolutionary game theory, cooperation in public goods games is eliminated by free-riders, yet in nature, cooperation is ubiquitous. Artificial models resolve this contradiction via the mechanism of network reciprocity. However,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Steve Miller , Joshua Knowles

Most previous works study the evolution of cooperation in a structured population by commonly employing an isolated single network. However, realistic systems are composed of many interdependent networks coupled with each other, rather than…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-11 Baokui Wang , Xiaojie Chen , Long Wang

We live and cooperate in networks. However, links in networks only allow for pairwise interactions, thus making the framework suitable for dyadic games, but not for games that are played in groups of more than two players. Here, we study…

We study the evolution of cooperation in public goods games on the square lattice, focusing on the effects that are brought about by different sizes of groups where individuals collect their payoffs and search for potential strategy donors.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-12-14 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Prosocial behaviors are encountered in the donation game, the prisoner's dilemma, relaxed social dilemmas, and public goods games. Many studies assume that the population structure is homogeneous, meaning all individuals have the same…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-28 Alex McAvoy , Benjamin Allen , Martin A. Nowak

Evolution of cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma and the public goods game is studied, where initially players belong to two independent structured populations. Simultaneously with the strategy evolution, players whose current utility…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-04 Zhen Wang , Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Indirect reciprocity unveils how social cooperation is founded upon moral systems. Within the frame of dyadic games based on individual reputations, the "leading-eight" strategies distinguish themselves in promoting and sustaining…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-22 Ming Wei , Xin Wang , Longzhao Liu , Hongwei Zheng , Yishen Jiang , Yajing Hao , Zhiming Zheng , Feng Fu , Shaoting Tang

Reputation and punishment are significant guidelines for regulating individual behavior in human society, and those with a good reputation are more likely to be imitated by others. In addition, society imposes varying degrees of punishment…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Gui Zhang , Yichao Yao , Ziyan Zeng , Minyu Feng , Manuel Chica

Many real systems are strongly characterized by collective cooperative phenomena whose existence and properties still need a satisfactory explanation. Coherently with their collective nature, they call for new and more accurate descriptions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-30 Giulio Burgio , Joan T. Matamalas , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

Evolutionary game theory has provided substantial contributions to explain the emergence of cooperation under unfavourable conditions in ecology, economics, and the social sciences. Recently, inspired by newly available empirical evidence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-09 Jaume Llabrés , Onkar Sadekar , Federico Malizia , Federico Battiston