Tactical cooperation of defectors in a multi-stage public goods game

A Szolnoki, X Chen - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
The basic social dilemma is frequently captured by a public goods game where participants
decide simultaneously whether to support a common pool or not and after the enhanced …

Restoring spatial cooperation with myopic agents in a three-strategy social dilemma

HW Lee, C Cleveland, A Szolnoki - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2023 - Elsevier
Introducing strategy complexity into the basic conflict of cooperation and defection is a
natural response to avoid the tragedy of the common state. As an intermediate approach …

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 …

The self-organizing impact of averaged payoffs on the evolution of cooperation

A Szolnoki, M Perc - New Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
According to the fundamental principle of evolutionary game theory, the more successful
strategy in a population should spread. Hence, during a strategy imitation process a player …

A reversed form of public goods game: equivalence and difference

C Wang, A Szolnoki - New Journal of Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
According to the public goods game (PGG) protocol, participants decide freely whether they
want to contribute to a common pool or not, but the resulting benefit is distributed equally. A …

The conflict between self-interaction and updating passivity in the evolution of cooperation

C Wang, W Zhu, A Szolnoki - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
In social dilemmas under weak selection, the capacity for a player to exhibit updating
passivity or interact with its own strategy can lead to conflicting outcomes. The central …

When costly migration helps to improve cooperation

HW Lee, C Cleveland, A Szolnoki - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Motion is a typical reaction among animals and humans trying to reach better conditions in a
changing world. This aspect has been studied intensively in social dilemmas where …

Asymmetric players in Prisons Dilemma Game

Z Han, P Zhu, J Yang, J Yang - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
Evolutionary game theory can solve social dilemmas in multiple areas. There are examples
in the literature of the use of this approach to analyze topics like economics, social behavior …

Small fraction of selective cooperators can elevate general wellbeing significantly

HW Lee, C Cleveland, A Szolnoki - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2021 - Elsevier
A cooperative player invests effort into a common venture without knowing the partner's
intention in advance. But this strategy can be implemented in various ways when a player is …

[HTML][HTML] Competition among alliances of different sizes

BF de Oliveira, A Szolnoki - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
To understand the biodiversity of an ecosystem cannot be understood by solely analyzing
the pair relations of competing species. Instead, we should consider multi-point interactions …