Network science has evolved into an indispensable platform for studying complex systems.
But recent research has identified limits of classical networks, where links connect pairs of …

Due to limited cognitive skills for perceptual error or other emotional reasons, players may
keep their current strategies even if there is a more promising choice. Such behavior inertia …

A greedy personality is usually accompanied by arrogance and confidence. This work
investigates the cooperation success condition in the context of biased payoff allocation and …

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 …

According to the evolutionary death-birth protocol, a player is chosen randomly to die and
neighbors compete for the available position proportional to their fitness. Hence, the status …

Despite the fruitful evidence to support the emergence of cooperation, irrational decisions
are still an essential part of promoting cooperation. Among the many factors that affect …

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 …

Pursuing maximal profit is a general motivation for rational players to update their strategies
in evolutionary games. Players could either imitate the more successful neighbors or adjust …

In human societies and animal groups, individual behavior is often driven by self-interest,
with actions typically avoided if they do not yield benefits. This paper focuses on payoff …

Evolutionary game dynamics in structured populations has been extensively explored in
past decades. However, most previous studies assume that payoffs of individuals are fully …