Paradoxical survival: examining the Parrondo effect across biology

KH Cheong, JM Koh, MC Jones - BioEssays, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Parrondo's paradox, in which losing strategies can be combined to produce winning
outcomes, has received much attention in mathematics and the physical sciences; a …

Parrondo's paradox from classical to quantum: A review

JW Lai, KH Cheong - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
Two losing games can be combined in a certain manner to give a winning outcome—this is
known as Parrondo's paradox. Parrondo's paradox has found its applications across …

Feedback control in a collective flashing ratchet

FJ Cao, L Dinis, JMR Parrondo - Physical review letters, 2004 - APS
An ensemble of Brownian particles in a feedback controlled flashing ratchet is studied. The
ratchet potential is switched on and off depending on the position of the particles, with the …

Parrondo's paradox reveals counterintuitive wins in biology and decision making in society

T Wen, KH Cheong - Physics of Life Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Parrondo's paradox refers to the paradoxical phenomenon of combining two losing
strategies in a certain manner to obtain a winning outcome. It has been applied to uncover …

Asymmetry and disorder: A decade of Parrondo's paradox

D Abbott - Fluctuation and Noise Letters, 2010 - World Scientific
In 1996, Parrondo's games were first constructed using a simple coin tossing scenario,
demonstrating the paradoxical situation where individually losing games combine to win …

Brownian motion and gambling: from ratchets to paradoxical games

JMR Parrondo, L Dínis - Contemporary Physics, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Two losing gambling games, when alternated in a periodic or random fashion, can produce
a winning game. This paradox has been inspired by certain physical systems capable of …

Social dynamics and Parrondo's paradox: A narrative review

JW Lai, KH Cheong - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
How do group dynamics affect individuals within the group? How do individuals, in turn,
affect group dynamics? As society comes together, individuals affect the group dynamics …

A comprehensive framework for preference aggregation Parrondo's paradox

JW Lai, KH Cheong - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Individuals can make choices for themselves that are beneficial or detrimental to the entire
group. Consider two losing choices that some individuals have to make on behalf of the …

Evaluation of single-prioritization voting systems in controlled collective Parrondo's games

JW Lai, KH Cheong - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
We examine an ensemble of individuals playing three individually losing games. With three
games to choose from, what happens when players are allowed to vote for the game that will …

Dynamic Parrondo's paradox

JS Cánovas, A Linero, D Peralta-Salas - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper is focused on studying Parrondo's paradox in non-linear dynamics, specifically
how the periodic combination of the individual maps f and g can give rise to chaos or order …