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In this paper we extend the framework of evolutionary inspection game put forward recently by the author and coworkers to a large class of conflict interactions dealing with the pressure executed by the major player (or principal) on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Vassili Kolokoltsov

We consider agents in a social network competing to be selected as partners in collaborative, mutually beneficial activities. We study this through a model in which an agent i can initiate a limited number k_i>0 of games and selects the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Timothy Murray , Jugal Garg , Rakesh Nagi

In this work we study a weak Prisoner\^as Dilemma game in which both strategies and update rules are subjected to evolutionary pressure. Interactions among agents are specified by complex topologies, and we consider both homogeneous and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-11-13 A. Cardillo , J. Gomez-Gardenes , D. Vilone , A. Sanchez

We consider a finite structured population of mobile individuals that strategically explore a network using a Markov movement model and interact with each other via a public goods game. We extend the model of Erovenko et al. (2019) from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-11 Igor V. Erovenko , Mark Broom

Understanding cooperation in social dilemmas requires models that capture the complexity of real-world interactions. While network frameworks have provided valuable insights to model the evolution of cooperation, they are unable to encode…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-15 Onkar Sadekar , Andrea Civilini , Vito Latora , Federico Battiston

Evolutionary game theory is a powerful framework for studying evolution in populations of interacting individuals. A common assumption in evolutionary game theory is that interactions are symmetric, which means that the players are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-04 Alex McAvoy , Christoph Hauert

Exploration of mechanisms underlying the emergence of collective cooperation remains a focal point in field of evolution of cooperation. Prevailing studies often neglect historical information, relying on the latest rewards as the primary…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-07 Changyan Di , Jianyue Guan , Qingguo Zhou , Jingqiang Wang , Xiangyang Li

The public goods game is a broadly used paradigm for studying the evolution of cooperation in structured populations. According to the basic assumption, the interaction graph determines the connections of a player where the focal actor…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-24 Ju Han , Xiaojie Chen , Attila Szolnoki

Evolutionary game theory is an abstract and simple, but very powerful way to model evolutionary dynamics. Even complex biological phenomena can sometimes be abstracted to simple two-player games. But often, the interaction between several…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-22 Chaitanya S. Gokhale , Arne Traulsen

We present a collaboration ring model -- a network of players playing the prisoner's dilemma game and collaborating among the nearest neighbours by forming coalitions. The microscopic stochastic updating of the players' strategies are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-13 Joy Das Bairagya , Jonathan Newton , Sagar Chakraborty

We study strong equilibria in network creation games. These form a classical and well-studied class of games where a set of players form a network by buying edges to their neighbors at a cost of a fixed parameter $\alpha$. The cost of a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Tomasz Janus , Bart de Keijzer

Cooperation is the foundation of ecosystems and the human society, and the reinforcement learning provides crucial insight into the mechanism for its emergence. However, most previous work has mostly focused on the self-organization at the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-17 Zhen-Wei Ding , Guo-Zhong Zheng , Chao-Ran Cai , Wei-Ran Cai , Li Chen , Ji-Qiang Zhang , Xu-Ming Wang

Understanding how cooperation evolves in structured populations remains a fundamental question across diverse disciplines. The problem of cooperation typically involves pairwise or group interactions among individuals. While prior studies…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-26 Dini Wang , Peng Yi , Gang Yan , Feng Fu

Iterated games are a fundamental component of economic and evolutionary game theory. They describe situations where two players interact repeatedly and have the possibility to use conditional strategies that depend on the outcome of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-12 Christian Hilbe , Martin A. Nowak , Karl Sigmund

In spatial evolutionary games the fitness of each individual is traditionally determined by the payoffs it obtains upon playing the game with its neighbors. Since defection yields the highest individual benefits, the outlook for cooperators…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-04-04 Zhen Wang , Aleksandra Murks , Wen-Bo Du , Zhi-Hai Rong , Matjaz Perc

Heterogeneity has been studied as one of the most common explanations of the puzzle of cooperation in social dilemmas. A large number of papers have been published discussing the effects of increasing heterogeneity in structured populations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-13 Marcos Cardinot , Josephine Griffith , Colm O'Riordan

We study the effect of contingent movement on the persistence of cooperation on complex networks with empty nodes. Each agent plays Prisoner's Dilemma game with its neighbors and then it either updates the strategy depending on the payoff…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-18 Genki Ichinose , Yoshiki Satotani , Takashi Nagatani

In repeated interactions between individuals, we do not expect that exactly the same situation will occur from one time to another. Contrary to what is common in models of repeated games in the literature, most real situations may differ a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Anders Eriksson , Kristian Lindgren

Game theory formalizes certain interactions between physical particles or between living beings in biology, sociology, and economics, and quantifies the outcomes by payoffs. The prisoner's dilemma (PD) describes situations in which it is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Dirk Helbing , Sergi Lozano

A non-zero-sum 3-person coalition game is presented, to study the evolution of complexity and diversity in cooperation, where the population dynamics of players with strategies is given according to their scores in the iterated game and…

adap-org · Physics 2015-06-30 Eizo Akiyama , Kunihiko Kaneko