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The serious games between humans and AI have only just begun. Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) models the competitive and cooperative strategies of biological entities. EGT could help predict the potential evolutionary equilibrium of humans…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Nandini Doreswamy , Louise Horstmanshof

In this paper we extend the investigation of cooperation in some classical evolutionary games on populations were the network of interactions among individuals is of the scale-free type. We show that the update rule, the payoff computation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Tomassini , L. Luthi , E. Pestelacci

The trust game, derived from an economics experiment, has recently attracted interest in the field of evolutionary dynamics. In a recent version of the evolutionary trust game, players adopt one of three strategies: investor, trustworthy…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-13 Chaoqian Wang

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

Evolutionary game theory offers a general framework to study how behaviors evolve by social learning in a population. This body of theory can accommodate a range of social dilemmas, or games, as well as real-world complexities such as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-08 Guocheng Wang , Qi Su , Long Wang , Joshua B. Plotkin

Learning processes in games explain how players grapple with one another in seeking an equilibrium. We study a natural model of learning based on individual gradients in two-player continuous games. In such games, the arguably natural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Benjamin J. Chasnov , Daniel Calderone , Behçet Açıkmeşe , Samuel A. Burden , Lillian J. Ratliff

This paper proposes a new equilibrium concept "robust perfect equilibrium" for non-cooperative games with a continuum of players, incorporating three types of perturbations. Such an equilibrium is shown to exist (in symmetric mixed…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-05-06 Enxian Chen , Lei Qiao , Xiang Sun , Yeneng Sun

The concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), introduced by Smith and Price, is a refinement of Nash equilibrium in 2-player symmetric games in order to explain counter-intuitive natural phenomena, whose existence is not…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Themistoklis Melissourgos , Paul Spirakis

In order to accommodate the empirical fact that population structures are rarely simple, modern studies of evolutionary dynamics allow for complicated and highly-heterogeneous spatial structures. As a result, one of the most difficult…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-07 Alex McAvoy , John Wakeley

In this paper, we study the distribution of the number of internal equilibria of a multi-player two-strategy random evolutionary game. Using techniques from the random polynomial theory, we obtain a closed formula for the probability that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Manh Hong Duong , Hoang Minh Tran , The Anh Han

We consider 2-player stochastic games with perfectly observed actions, and study the limit, as the discount factor goes to one, of the equilibrium payoffs set. In the usual setup where current states are observed by the players, we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Jérôme Renault , Bruno Ziliotto

Game theoretic tools are utilized to analyze a one-locus continuous selection model of sex-specific meiotic drive by considering nonequivalence of the viabilities of reciprocal heterozygotes that might be noticed at an imprinted locus. The…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-07 Bijan Sarkar

In evolutionary game theory, an important measure of a mutant trait (strategy) is its ability to invade and take over an otherwise-monomorphic population. Typically, one quantifies the success of a mutant strategy via the probability that a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-12 Alex McAvoy , Christoph Hauert

We examine kinetic symmetry breaking phenomena in an evolutionary political game in which voters, inhabiting a multidimensional ideological space, cast ballots via selection mechanisms subject to the competing forces of conformity and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arne Soulier , Tim Halpin-Healy

Starting with Darwin, biologists have asked how populations evolve from a low fitness state that is evolutionarily stable to a high fitness state that is not. Specifically of interest is the emergence of cooperation and multicellularity…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-10 Dervis Can Vural , Alexander Isakov , L. Mahadevan

We study games with finitely many participants, each having finitely many choices. We consider the following categories of participants: (I) populations: sets of nonatomic agents, (II) atomic splittable players, (III) atomic non splittable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Sylvain Sorin , Cheng Wan

Generalizing the cyclically competing three-species model (often referred to as the rock-paper-scissors game), we consider a simple system of population dynamics without spatial structures that involves four species. Unlike the previous…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-01-06 Sara O. Case , Clinton H. Durney , Michel Pleimling , R. K. P. Zia

We consider a class of continuous-time dynamic games involving a large number of players. Each player selects actions from a finite set and evolves through a finite set of states. State transitions occur stochastically and depend on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Leonardo Pedroso , Andrea Agazzi , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Mauro Salazar

We consider evolutionary dynamics for population games in which players have a continuum of strategies at their disposal. Models in this setting amount to infinite-dimensional differential equations evolving on the manifold of probability…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Brendon G. Anderson , Jingqi Li , Somayeh Sojoudi , Murat Arcak

Commuters looking for the shortest path to their destinations, the security of networked computers, hedge funds trading on the same stocks, governments and populations acting to mitigate an epidemic, or employers and employees agreeing on a…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Dylan Possamaï , Ludovic Tangpi