Group contests are ubiquitous. Some examples include warfare between countries,
competition between political parties, team‐incentives within firms, and rent‐seeking. In …

Conflict is rife in group-living species and exerts a powerful selective force. Group members
face a variety of threats from extra-group conspecifics, from individuals looking for …

All conflicts involving three or more or agents can be described using a vocabulary of only
four interaction types. Analyzing the cost/benefit calculations of each agent's role within …

Although humans qualify as one of the most cooperative animal species, the scale of violent
intergroup conflict among them is unparalleled. Explanations of the underlying motivations …

An important puzzle in social network research is to explain how macro-level structures
emerge from micro-level network processes. Explaining the emergence and stability of …

Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

Optimization problems become increasingly complicated in the era of big data and Internet
of Things, which significantly challenges the effectiveness and efficiency of existing …

Although uniquely destructive and wasteful, intergroup conflict and warfare are not confined
to humans. They are seen across a range of group-living species, from social insects, fishes …

Network evolutionary game theory provides a new perspective on how cooperative
behaviors emerge in the real world and has been widely investigated. However, most …

When do nonviolent protests escalate into violence? Existing literature has focused primarily
on campaign-level escalations and only recently has work begun to examine protest event …