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physics.bio-ph2016★ 83 cited

Model of the best-of-N nest-site selection process in honeybees

Andreagiovanni Reina, James A. R. Marshall, Vito Trianni +1

The ability of a honeybee swarm to select the best nest site plays a fundamental role in determining the future colony's fitness. To date, the nest-site selection process has mostl…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 46 cited

Partner selection supported by opaque reputation promotes cooperative behavior

Valerio Capraro, Francesca Giardini, Daniele Vilone +1

Reputation plays a major role in human societies, and it has been proposed as an explanation for the evolution of cooperation. While the majority of previous studies equates reputa…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 19 cited

Balancing selfishness and norm conformity can explain human behavior in large-scale Prisoner's Dilemma games and can poise human groups near criticality

John Realpe-Gómez, Giulia Andrighetto, Gustavo Nardin +1

Cooperation is central to the success of human societies as it is crucial for overcoming some of the most pressing social challenges of our time. Yet how human cooperation is achie…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 55 cited

Evolution of gossip-based indirect reciprocity on a bipartite network

Francesca Giardini, Daniele Vilone

Cooperation can be supported by indirect reciprocity via reputation.Thanks to gossip, reputations are built and circulated and humans can identify defectors and ostracise them. How…

cs.MA2016★ 48 cited

Emergence of Consensus in a Multi-Robot Network: from Abstract Models to Empirical Validation

Vito Trianni, Daniele De Simone, Andreagiovanni Reina +1

Consensus dynamics in decentralised multiagent systems are subject to intense studies, and several different models have been proposed and analysed. Among these, the naming game st…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 3 cited

The Peace Mediator effect: Heterogeneous agents can foster consensus in continuous opinion models

Daniele Vilone, Timoteo Carletti, Franco Bagnoli +1

Statistical mechanics has proven to be able to capture the fundamental rules underlying phenomena of social aggregation and opinion dynamics, well studied in disciplines like socio…