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 …

Uncertainties are ubiquitous in everyday life, and it is thus important to explore their effects
on the evolution of cooperation. In this paper, the prisoner's dilemma game with …

In efforts to resolve social dilemmas, reinforcement learning is an alternative to imitation and
exploration in evolutionary game theory. While imitation and exploration rely on the …

The role of costly punishment in sha** the evolution of cooperation has long been a
subject of debate, given its contested effectiveness due to challenges posed by second …

Social exclusion is widely used as a control mechanism to promote cooperative behavior in
human societies. However, it remains unclear how such control strategies actually influence …

Innovation and evolution are two processes of paramount relevance for social and biological
systems. In general, the former allows the introduction of elements of novelty, while the latter …

In the context of Evolutionary Game Theory, one of the most noteworthy mechanisms to
support cooperation is spatial reciprocity, usually accomplished by distributing players in a …

Nowadays, a large number of complex systems have been characterized by networks
connecting the pairwise interacting agents. However, from human decision-making …

Reinforcement learning has been demonstrated to be an effective approach to investigate
the dynamic of strategy updating and the learning process of agents in game theory. Most …

Group selection and network reciprocity are two well-known mechanisms for cooperation.
And while they have separately received ample attention for their ability to promote …