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The approximate master equation (AME) provides a highly accurate description of dynamical processes on networks, yet its steady states are generally analytically intractable. In this study, we develop an analytical framework to derive the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-05 Yu Takiguchi , Takehisa Hasegawa

In this work we aim to analyze the role of noise in the spatial Public Goods Game, one of the most famous games in Evolutionary Game Theory. The dynamics of this game is affected by a number of parameters and processes, namely the topology…

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Facilitated spin models were introduced some decades ago to mimic systems characterized by a glass transition. Recent developments have shown that a class of facilitated spin models is also able to reproduce characteristic signatures of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-07 Peter G. Fennell , James P. Gleeson , Davide Cellai

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

We study the evolution of cooperation in public goods games on different regular graphs as a function of the noise level underlying strategy adoptions. We focus on the effects that are brought about by different group sizes of public goods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-19 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc , Gyorgy Szabo

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

The efficiency of institutionalized punishment is studied by evaluating the stationary states in the spatial public goods game comprising unconditional defectors, cooperators, and cooperating pool-punishers as the three competing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-08 Attila Szolnoki , Gyorgy Szabo , Matjaz Perc

We investigate the spatial Public Goods Game in the presence of fitness-driven and conformity-driven agents. This framework usually considers only the former type of agents, i.e., agents that tend to imitate the strategy of their fittest…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-30 Marco Alberto Javarone , Alberto Antonioni , Francesco Caravelli

Gallice and Monz\'on (2019) present a natural environment that sustains full co-operation in one-shot social dilemmas among a finite number of self-interested agents. They demonstrate that in a sequential public goods game, where agents…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-13 Chowdhury Mohammad Sakib Anwar , Konstantinos Georgalos

The evolution of cooperation is a central enigma in evolutionary game theory. Traditionally, the combination of pairwise networks and repeated Public Goods Games with a single state fails to adequately describe realistic group interaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-25 Nankun Wei , Xiaojin Xiong , Qin Li , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

Public goods games study the incentives of individuals to contribute to a public good and their behaviors in equilibria. In this paper, we examine a specific type of public goods game where players are networked and each has binary actions,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Sixie Yu , Kai Zhou , P. Jeffrey Brantingham , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Cooperative behavior among unrelated individuals in human and animal societies represents a most intriguing puzzle to scientists in various disciplines. Here we present a simple yet effective mechanism promoting cooperation under full…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Gyorgy Szabo , Christoph Hauert

This paper provides a mathematical study of the well-posedness of master equation on finite state space involving terms modelling common noise. In this setting, the solution of the master equation depends on an additional variable modelling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Charles Bertucci , Charles Meynard

This study simulates the evolution of artificial economies in order to understand the tax relevance of administrative boundaries in the quality of life of its citizens. The modeling involves the construction of a computational algorithm,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Bernardo Alves Furtado , Isaque Daniel Rocha Eberhardt

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

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 wide class of binary-state dynamics on networks---including, for example, the voter model, the Bass diffusion model, and threshold models---can be described in terms of transition rates (spin-flip probabilities) that depend on the number…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-08 James P. Gleeson

We analyze a cooperative game, where the cooperative act is not based on the previous behaviour of the co-player, but on the similarity between the players. This system has been studied in a mean-field description recently [A. Traulsen and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arne Traulsen , Jens Christian Claussen

This study investigates cooperation evolution mechanisms in the spatial public goods game. A novel deep reinforcement learning framework, Proximal Policy Optimization with Adversarial Curriculum Transfer (PPO-ACT), is proposed to model…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhaoqilin Yang , Chanchan Li , Xin Wang , Youliang Tian

The evolutionary dynamics of the Public Goods game addresses the emergence of cooperation within groups of individuals. However, the Public Goods game on large populations of interconnected individuals has been usually modeled without any…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Gómez-Gardeñes , M. Romance , R. Criado , D. Vilone , A. Sánchez
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