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The stable cooperation ratio of spatial evolutionary games has been widely studied using simulations or approximate analysis methods. However, sometimes such ``stable'' cooperation ratios obtained via approximate methods might not be…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-01 Jiangjiang Cheng , Wenjun Mei , Wei Su , Ge Chen

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…

Cooperation plays a fundamental role in societal and biological domains, and the population structure profoundly shapes the dynamics of evolution. Practically, individuals behave either altruistically or egoistically in multiple groups,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-04-05 Dini Wang , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen , Gang Yan

Situations of conflict giving rise to social dilemmas are widespread in society and game theory is one major way in which they can be investigated. Starting from the observation that individuals in society interact through networks of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-11-24 Enea Pestelacci , Marco Tomassini , Leslie Luthi

The game interactions among individuals in nature are often uncertain and dynamically evolving, significantly influencing the persistence of cooperation. However, it remains a formidable challenge to effectively characterize these dynamic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bin Pi , Minyu Feng , Liang-Jian Deng , Xiaojie Chen , Attila Szolnoki

In this work we have used computer models of social-like networks to show by extensive numerical simulations that cooperation in evolutionary games can emerge and be stable on this class of networks. The amounts of cooperation reached are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-07-12 Alberto Antonioni , Marco Tomassini

Dynamics of evolutionary games strongly depend on underlying networks. We study the coevolutionary prisoner's dilemma in which players change their local networks as well as strategies (i.e., cooperate or defect). This topic has been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-01-25 Yoshimi Yoshino , Naoki Masuda

A generic property of biological, social and economical networks is their ability to evolve in time, creating and suppressing interactions. We approach this issue within the framework of an adaptive network of agents playing a Prisoner's…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-10-20 Martin G. Zimmermann , Victor M. Eguiluz , Maxi San Miguel

We investigate an evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game among self-driven agents, where collective motion of biological flocks is imitated through averaging directions of neighbors. Depending on the temptation to defect and the velocity at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-13 Zhuo Chen , Jian-Xi Gao , Yun-Ze Cai , Xiao-Ming Xu

Wealthy individuals may be less tempted to defect than those with comparatively low payoffs. To take this into consideration, we introduce coevolutionary success-driven multigames in structured populations. While the core game is always the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-17 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Studying the impact of cooperation in strategic settings is one of the cornerstones of algorithmic game theory. Intuitively, allowing more cooperation yields equilibria that are more beneficial for the society of agents. However, for many…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hans Gawendowicz , Pascal Lenzner , Lukas Weyand

This paper proposes a new lens for studying threshold games played on networks when the thresholds are heterogeneous. These are games where agents have two possible actions, and prefer action 1 if and only if enough of their neighbours…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-07 Alastair Langtry , Sarah Taylor , Yifan Zhang

Evolutionary games on networks traditionally involve the same game at each interaction. Here we depart from this assumption by considering mixed games, where the game played at each interaction is drawn uniformly at random from a set of two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-23 Marco A. Amaral , Lucas Wardil , Matjaz Perc , Jafferson K. L. da Silva

Complex networks serve as abstract models for understanding real-world complex systems and provide frameworks for studying structured dynamical systems. This article addresses limitations in current studies on the exploration of individual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Bin Pi , Liang-Jian Deng , Minyu Feng , Matjaž Perc , Jürgen Kurths

Recent developments of eco-evolutionary models have shown that evolving feedbacks between behavioral strategies and the environment of game interactions, leading to changes in the underlying payoff matrix, can impact the underlying…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-10 Katherine Betz , Feng Fu , Naoki Masuda

Evolution of cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma game is studied where initially all players are linked via a regular graph, having four neighbors each. Simultaneously with the strategy evolution, players are allowed to make new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-27 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc , Zsuzsa Danku

The evolution of cooperation among unrelated individuals in human and animal societies remains a challenging issue across disciplines. It is an important subject also in the evolutionary game theory to research how cooperation arises. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-23 Norihito Toyota

We study an evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game with two layered graphs, where the lower layer is the physical infrastructure on which the interactions are taking place and the upper layer represents the connections for the strategy…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhi-Xi Wu , Ying-Hai Wang

This paper studies controlling segregation in social networks via exogenous incentives. We construct an edge formation game on a directed graph. A user (node) chooses the probability with which it forms an inter- or intra- community edge…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Rui Luo , Buddhika Nettasinghe , Vikram Krishnamurthy

Evolutionary graph theory is a well established framework for modelling the evolution of social behaviours in structured populations. An emerging consensus in this field is that graphs that exhibit heterogeneity in the number of connections…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-20 Wes Maciejewski , Feng Fu , Christoph Hauert