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Some of the most relevant future applications of multi-agent systems like autonomous driving or factories as a service display mixed-motive scenarios, where agents might have conflicting goals. In these settings agents are likely to learn…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Kyrill Schmid , Lenz Belzner , Robert Müller , Johannes Tochtermann , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Interaction and cooperation with humans are overarching aspirations of artificial intelligence (AI) research. Recent studies demonstrate that AI agents trained with deep reinforcement learning are capable of collaborating with humans. These…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Kevin R. McKee , Xuechunzi Bai , Susan T. Fiske

The public goods game is one of the most famous models for studying the evolution of cooperation in sizable groups. The multiplication factor in this game can characterize the investment return from the public good, which may be variable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-10-26 Xiaojie Chen , Yongkui Liu , Yonghui Zhou , Long Wang , Matjaz Perc

Understanding the emergence of cooperation in social networks has advanced through pairwise interactions, but the corresponding theory for group-based public goods games (PGGs) remains less explored. Here, we provide theoretical conditions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Chaoqian Wang , Qi Su

Cooperation is vital to our survival and progress. Evolutionary game theory offers a lens to understand the structures and incentives that enable cooperation to be a successful strategy. As artificial intelligence agents become integral to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Tomer Jordi Chaffer , Justin Goldston , Gemach D. A. T. A.

The emergence and maintenance of cooperation within sizable groups of unrelated humans offer many challenges for our understanding. We propose that the humans' capacity of communication, such as how many and how far away the fellows can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-29 Zi-Gang Huang , Sheng-Jun Wang , Xin-Jian Xu , Ying-Hai Wang

A simple model for cooperation between "selfish" agents, which play an extended version of the Prisoner's Dilemma(PD) game, in which they use arbitrary payoffs, is presented and studied. A continuous variable, representing the probability…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Fort

It is a challenging task to reach global cooperation among self-interested agents, which often requires sophisticated design or usage of incentives. For example, we may apply supervisors or referees who are able to detect and punish…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-20 Ting Ling , Zhang Li , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

Solving the problem of cooperation is fundamentally important for the creation and maintenance of functional societies. Problems of cooperation are omnipresent within human society, with examples ranging from navigating busy road junctions…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Nayana Dasgupta , Mirco Musolesi

While artificial intelligence has been applied to control players' decisions in board games for over half a century, little attention is given to games with no player competition. Pandemic is an exemplar collaborative board game where all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Konstantinos Sfikas , Antonios Liapis

In dyadic models of indirect reciprocity, the receivers' history of giving has a significant impact on the donor's decision. When the interaction involves more than two agents things become more complicated, and in large groups cooperation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-04-21 Daniele Vilone , Francesca Giardini , Mario Paolucci

We explore the idea of aligning an AI assistant by inverting a model of users' (unknown) preferences from observed interactions. To validate our proposal, we run proof-of-concept simulations in the economic ultimatum game, formalizing user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jan-Philipp Fränken , Sam Kwok , Peixuan Ye , Kanishk Gandhi , Dilip Arumugam , Jared Moore , Alex Tamkin , Tobias Gerstenberg , Noah D. Goodman

Coordination and cooperation between humans and autonomous agents in cooperative games raises interesting questions of human decision making and behaviour changes. Here we report our findings from a group formation game in a small-world…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-21 Tuomas Takko , Kunal Bhattacharya , Daniel Monsivais , Kimmo Kaski

Groups of humans are often able to find ways to cooperate with one another in complex, temporally extended social dilemmas. Models based on behavioral economics are only able to explain this phenomenon for unrealistic stateless matrix…

When can cooperation arise from self-interested decisions in public goods games? And how can we help agents to act cooperatively? We examine these classical questions in a pivotal participation game, a variant of public good games, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Yiling Chen , Biaoshuai Tao , Fang-Yi Yu

Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents capable of autonomous learning and independent decision-making hold great promise for addressing complex challenges across various critical infrastructure domains, including transportation, energy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Hepeng Li , Yuhong Liu , Jun Yan , Jie Gao , Xiaoou Yang

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

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Vojtech Kovarik , Caspar Oesterheld , Vincent Conitzer

This paper investigates how natural language communication with an AI agent affects human cooperative behaviour in indefinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma games. We conduct a laboratory experiment (n = 126) with two between-subjects…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-18 Chowdhury Mohammad Sakib Anwar , Konstantinos Georgalos

Gamification applies game mechanics to non-game environments to motivate and engage users. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers powerful tools for personalizing and optimizing gamification, adapting to users' needs, preferences, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Carlos J. Costa , Joao Tiago Aparicio , Manuela Aparicio , Sofia Aparicio

In this study, we explore the potential of Game Theory as a means to investigate cooperation and trust in human-robot mixed groups. Particularly, we introduce the Public Good Game (PGG), a model highlighting the tension between individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Giulia Pusceddu , Sara Mongile , Francesco Rea , Alessandra Sciutti