Collapse of cooperation in evolving games

AJ Stewart, JB Plotkin - Proceedings of the National …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Game theory provides a quantitative framework for analyzing the behavior of rational agents.
The Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma in particular has become a standard model for studying …

Evolutionary dynamics of cooperation in the n-person stag hunt game

Q Luo, L Liu, X Chen - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider the N-person stag hunt game based on the two-person stag hunt
game and assume that the payoff of successful stag hunters is larger than that of hare …

An evolutionary game with conformists and profiteers regarding the memory mechanism

B Pi, Y Li, M Feng - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Network evolutionary game theory provides a new perspective on how cooperative
behaviors emerge in the real world and has been widely investigated. However, most …

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 …

Memory-based involution dilemma on square lattices

C Huang, C Wang - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
When involution affects individuals, their efforts do not augment resources but merely
compete for limited resources. From entrance exams to company overtime, such efforts lead …

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 …

Memory-based conformity enhances cooperation in social dilemmas

F Shu, Y Liu, X Liu, X Zhou - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2019 - Elsevier
The problem of how cooperative behaviors emerge in real world has been widely
investigated and it is found that cooperative behaviors are closely related to memory, which …

Convergence analysis and strategy control of evolutionary games with imitation rule on Toroidal grid

G Chen, Y Yu - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates discrete-time evolutionary games with a general stochastic imitation
rule on the toroidal grid, which is a grid network with periodic boundary conditions. The …

Memory-based stag hunt game on regular lattices

Y Dong, H Xu, S Fan - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Memory normally plays an important role when people make a decision. Thus, it is
reasonable and necessary to introduce the influence of memory in the evolutionary game …

Simulating the past for understanding the present. A critical review

JA Barceló, F Del Castillo - Simulating prehistoric and ancient worlds, 2016 - Springer
This introductory essay aims to introduce the chapters in the book presenting some aspects
of the theoretical and conceptual framework necessary to consider the advantages computer …