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Cooperation is of utmost importance to society as a whole, but is often challenged by individual self-interests. While game theory has studied this problem extensively, there is little work on interactions within and across groups with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-14 Dirk Helbing , Anders Johansson

We propose a model of emergence of cooperation in evolutionary games that high- lights the role of network formation and effect of network structure. In line with empirical data, the model proposes a mechanism that explains the persistence…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-12-14 David Chavalarias

Modeling multimodal human behavior has been a key barrier to increasing the level of interaction between human and robot, particularly for collaborative tasks. Our key insight is that an effective, learned robot policy used for human-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Eley Ng , Ziang Liu , Monroe Kennedy

Dynamical behaviors of complex interacting systems, including brain activities, financial price movements, and physical collective phenomena, are associated with underlying interactions between the system's components. The issue of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Shuhan Zheng , Ziqiang Li , Kantaro Fujiwara , Gouhei Tanaka

Recently, the eco-evolutionary game theory which describes the coupled dynamics of strategies and environment have attracted great attention. At the same time, most of the current work is focused on the classic two-player two-strategy game.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-22 Bin-Quan Li , Cong Liu , Zhi-Xi Wu , Jian-Yue Guan

It is widely believed that one's peers influence product adoption behaviors. This relationship has been linked to the number of signals a decision-maker receives in a social network. But it is unclear if these same principles hold when the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Soumajyoti Sarkar , Ashkan Aleali , Paulo Shakarian , Mika Armenta , Danielle Sanchez , Kiran Lakkaraju

We examine the tuning of cooperative behavior in repeated multi-agent games using an analytically tractable, continuous-time, nonlinear model of opinion dynamics. Each modeled agent updates its real-valued opinion about each available…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-24 Shinkyu Park , Anastasia Bizyaeva , Mari Kawakatsu , Alessio Franci , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Recent empirical studies suggest that heavy-tailed distributions of human activities are universal in real social dynamics [Muchnik, \emph{et al.}, Sci. Rep. \textbf{3}, 1783 (2013)]. On the other hand, community structure is ubiquitous in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-14 Zhi-Xi Wu , Zhihai Rong , Han-Xin Yang

Ecology and evolution are inherently linked, and studying a mathematical model that considers both holds promise of insightful discoveries related to the dynamics of cooperation. In the present article, we use the prisoner's dilemma (PD)…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-10 Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Srilena Kundu , Jeet Banerjee , Matjaž Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

Prisoner's dilemma game is the most commonly used model of spatial evolutionary game which is considered as a paradigm to portray competition among selfish individuals. In recent years, Win-Stay-Lose-Learn, a strategy updating rule base on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-27 Zhenyu Shi , Wei Wei , Xiangnan Feng , Xing Li , Zhiming Zheng

Higher-order interactions are prevalent in real-world complex systems and exert unique influences on system evolution that cannot be captured by pairwise interactions. We incorporate game transitions into the higher-order prisoner's dilemma…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-06-25 Yi-Duo Chen , Zhi-Xi Wu , Jian-Yue Guan

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

We study effects of strategy-dependent time delays on equilibria of evolving populations. It is well known that time delays may cause oscillations in dynamical systems. Here we report a novel behavior. We show that microscopic models of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-13 Jacek Miȩkisz , Marek Bodnar

Maintenance of cooperation was studied for a two-strategy evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma game where the players are located on a one-dimensional chain and their payoff comes from games with the nearest and next-nearest neighbor…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-02-20 Jeromos Vukov , György Szabó , Attila Szolnoki

The emergence of mutual cooperation is studied in a spatially extended evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game in which the players are located on the sites of cubic lattices for dimensions d=1, 2, and 3. Each player can choose one of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gyorgy Szabo , Tibor Antal , Peter Szabo , Michel Droz

The Drift-Diffusion Model (DDM) is widely used in neuropsychological studies to understand the decision process by incorporating both reaction times and subjects' responses. Various models have been developed to estimate DDM parameters,…

Applications · Statistics 2025-07-03 Zekai Jin , Yaakov Stern , Seonjoo Lee

To make decisions organisms often accumulate information across multiple timescales. However, most experimental and modeling studies of decision-making focus on sequences of independent trials. On the other hand, natural environments are…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-12 Khanh P Nguyen , Kresimir Josic , Zachary P Kilpatrick

The prisoner's dilemma (PD) game is a simple model for understanding cooperative patterns in complex systems consisting of selfish individuals. Here, we study a PD game problem in scale-free networks containing hierarchically organized…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 C. -K. Yun , N. Masuda , B. Kahng

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

Evolutionary game theory has been successfully used to investigate the dynamics of systems, in which many entities have competitive interactions. From a physics point of view, it is interesting to study conditions under which a coordination…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 Dirk Helbing , Anders Johansson