Statistical physics of human cooperation

M Perc, JJ Jordan, DG Rand, Z Wang, S Boccaletti… - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice
personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable …

[HTML][HTML] Phase transitions in models of human cooperation

M Perc - Physics Letters A, 2016 - Elsevier
If only the fittest survive, why should one cooperate? Why should one sacrifice personal
benefits for the common good? Recent research indicates that a comprehensive answer to …

Inertia in spatial public goods games under weak selection

C Wang, A Szolnoki - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to limited cognitive skills for perceptual error or other emotional reasons, players may
keep their current strategies even if there is a more promising choice. Such behavior inertia …

Complex evolutionary dynamics due to punishment and free space in ecological multigames

SN Chowdhury, S Kundu, M Perc… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The concurrence of ecological and evolutionary processes often arises as an integral part of
various biological and social systems. We here study eco-evolutionary dynamics by …

A reliable IoT edge computing trust management mechanism for smart cities

B Wang, M Li, X Jin, C Guo - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, many end-users participate
in the smart city through their own intelligent mobile devices (such as personal wearable …

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of multigames with mutations

S Roy, S Nag Chowdhury, PC Mali, M Perc, D Ghosh - PLoS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Most environments favor defection over cooperation due to natural selection. Nonetheless,
the emergence of cooperation is omnipresent in many biological, social, and economic …

Evolutionary public good games based on the long-term payoff mechanism in heterogeneous networks

Y Duan, J Huang, J Zhang - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, it has been of great concern to solve the puzzle of social
dilemmas in spatial public goods games. It has been demonstrated that the introduction of …

Inequal dependence on members stabilizes cooperation in spatial public goods game

F Yu, J Wang, J He - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
For many years, social diversity has been recognized as one of the important factors in the
emergence of cooperation. In PGG that characterizes collective social dilemmas, the …

Evolutionary mixed games in structured populations: Cooperation and the benefits of heterogeneity

MA Amaral, L Wardil, M Perc, JKL da Silva - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
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 …

Pool-rewarding in N-person snowdrift game

K Li, Y Mao, Z Wei, R Cong - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2021 - Elsevier
We extend the N-person snowdrift game (NSG) to incorporate the effects of pool rewarding.
An individual who chooses to reward pays a certain cost to provide additional benefits to …