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Evolutionary models are used to study the self-organisation of collective action, often incorporating population structure due to its ubiquitous presence and long-known impact on emerging phenomena. We investigate the evolution of…

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Higher-order networks, naturally described as hypergraphs, are essential for modeling real-world systems involving interactions among three or more entities. Stochastic block models offer a principled framework for characterizing mesoscale…

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Evolutionary game theory is one of the key paradigms behind many scientific disciplines from science to engineering. Previous studies proposed a strategy updating mechanism, which successfully demonstrated that the scale-free network can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-19 Yichao Zhang , M. A. Aziz-Alaoui , Cyrille Bertelle , Shi Zhou , Wenting Wang

Many networked datasets with units interacting in groups of two or more, encoded with hypergraphs, are accompanied by extra information about nodes, such as the role of an individual in a workplace. Here we show how these node attributes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Anna Badalyan , Nicolò Ruggeri , Caterina De Bacco

The co-evolution of structure and dynamics, known as adaptivity, is a fundamental property in various systems and drives diverse emergent behaviors. However, the adaptivity in previous works is primarily stemmed from pairwise situations,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-22 Longzhao Liu , Hongwei Zheng , Zhihao Han , Xin Wang , Shaoting Tang

Social networks have a scale-free property and community structure, and many problems in life have the characteristic of public goods, such as resource shortage. Due to different preferences of individuals, there exist individuals who adopt…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-23 Mingzhen Zhang , Naiding Yang , Xianglin Zhu

The interactions between individuals play a pivotal role in shaping the structure and dynamics of social systems. Complex network models have proven invaluable in uncovering the underlying mechanisms that govern the formation and evolution…

Cooperative behaviors are deeply embedded in structured biological and social systems. Networks are often employed to portray pairwise interactions among individuals, where network nodes represent individuals and links indicate who…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-14 Jiachao Guo , Yao Meng , Aming Li

Recent studies have shown that novel collective behaviors emerge in complex systems due to the presence of higher-order interactions. However, how the collective behavior of a system is influenced by the microscopic organization of its…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-01 Federico Malizia , Santiago Lamata-Otín , Mattia Frasca , Vito Latora , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

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

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

Capturing the structured mixing within a population is key to the reliable projection of infectious disease dynamics and hence informed control. Both heterogeneity in the number of contacts and age-structured mixing have been repeatedly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Luke Murray Kearney , Emma L Davis , Matt J Keeling

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

We study a coevolutionary public goods game on a dynamic hypergraph, where an individual's payoff directly determines the number of hyperedges it can join. In the proposed mechanism, nodes adjust their participation according to the group…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-27 Yichao Yao , Yuji Zhang , Juan Wu , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

Hierarchy is one of the most conspicuous features of numerous natural, technological and social systems. The underlying structures are typically complex and their most relevant organizational principle is the ordering of the ties among the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-05 Tamás Nepusz , Tamás Vicsek

The promotion of cooperation on spatial lattices is an important issue in evolutionary game theory. This effect clearly depends on the update rule: it diminishes with stochastic imitative rules whereas it increases with unconditional…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-07 Carlos P. Roca , José A. Cuesta , Angel Sánchez

Hypergraphs, capable of representing high-order interactions via hyperedges, have become a powerful tool for modeling real-world biological and social systems. Inherent relationships within these real-world systems, such as the encoding…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Li Ni , Ziqi Deng , Lin Mu , Lei Zhang , Wenjian Luo , Yiwen Zhang

When exposed to a contagion phenomenon, individuals may respond to the perceived risk of infection by adopting behavioral changes, aiming to reduce their exposure or their risk of infecting others. The social cost of such adaptive behaviors…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-06 Marco Mancastroppa , Márton Karsai , Alain Barrat

Evolutionary game dynamics describes not only frequency dependent genetical evolution, but also cultural evolution in humans. In this context, successful strategies spread by imitation. It has been shown that the details of strategy update…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-10-07 Arne Traulsen , Dirk Semmann , Ralf D. Sommerfeld , Hans-Juergen Krambeck , Manfred Milinski

Graphs are a standard framework for describing dynamical processes shaped by pairwise interactions among agents. But many systems involve interactions in groups of three or more agents. Here, we develop a method of "$\ell$-hyperedge…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-25 Anzhi Sheng , Alex McAvoy , Ye Tian , Silun Zhang , Angela Fontan , Joshua B. Plotkin