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physics.soc-ph2026★ 3 cited

Supervised tax compliance and evasion from a spatial evolutionary game perspective

Qin Li, Ting Ling, Minyu Feng +1

Taxation constitutes a fundamental component of modern national economic systems, exerting profound impacts on both societal functioning and governmental operations. In this paper,…

physics.soc-ph2025★ 3 cited

Community detection in hypergraphs through hyperedge percolation

Bianka Kovács, Barnabás Benedek, Gergely Palla

Complex networks often exhibit community structure, with communities corresponding to denser subgraphs in which nodes are closely linked. When modelling systems where interactions…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 44 cited

Leaving bads provides better outcome than approaching goods in a social dilemma

Zhilong Xiao, Xiaojie Chen, Attila Szolnoki

Individual migration has been regarded as an important factor for the evolution of cooperation in mobile populations. Motivations of migration, however, can be largely divergent: o…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 63 cited

Seasonal payoff variations and the evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas

Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

Varying environmental conditions affect relations between interacting individuals in social dilemmas, thus affecting also the evolution of cooperation. Oftentimes these environment…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 96 cited

Exploring optimal institutional incentives for public cooperation

Shengxian Wang, Xiaojie Chen, Attila Szolnoki

Prosocial incentive can promote cooperation, but providing incentive is costly. Institutions in human society may prefer to use an incentive strategy which is able to promote coope…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 42 cited

Mobility restores the mechanism which supports cooperation in the voluntary prisoner's dilemma game

Marcos Cardinot, Colm O'Riordan, Josephine Griffith +1

It is generally believed that in a situation where individual and collective interests are in conflict, the availability of optional participation is a key mechanism to maintain co…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 61 cited

Central governance based on monitoring and reporting solves the collective-risk social dilemma

Nanrong He, Xiaojie Chen, Attila Szolnoki

Monitoring and reporting incorrect acts are pervasive for maintaining human cooperation, but in theory it is unclear how they influence each other. To explore their possible intera…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 79 cited

Competition and partnership between conformity and payoff-based imitations in social dilemmas

Attila Szolnoki, Xiaojie Chen

Learning from a partner who collects higher payoff is a frequently used working hypothesis in evolutionary game theory. One of the alternative dynamical rules is when the focal pla…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 34 cited

Reciprocity-based cooperative phalanx maintained by overconfident players

Attila Szolnoki, Xiaojie Chen

According to the evolutionary game theory principle, a strategy representing a higher payoff can spread among competitors. But there are cases when a player consistently overestima…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 54 cited

Dynamic-sensitive cooperation in the presence of multiple strategy updating rules

Attila Szolnoki, Zsuzsa Danku

The importance of microscopic details on cooperation level is an intensively studied aspect of evolutionary game theory. Interestingly, these details become crucial on heterogeneou…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 185 cited

Punishment and inspection for governing the commons in a feedback-evolving game

Xiaojie Chen, Attila Szolnoki

Utilizing common resources is always a dilemma for community members. While cooperator players restrain themselves and consider the proper state of resources, defectors demand more…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 64 cited

Imitate or innovate: competition of strategy updating attitudes in spatial social dilemma games

Zsuzsa Danku, Zhen Wang, Attila Szolnoki

Evolution is based on the assumption that competing players update their strategies to increase their individual payoffs. However, while the applied updating method can be differen…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 112 cited

Environmental feedback drives cooperation in spatial social dilemmas

Attila Szolnoki, Xiaojie Chen

Exploiting others is beneficial individually but it could also be detrimental globally. The reverse is also true: a higher cooperation level may change the environment in a way tha…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 25 cited

Griffiths phases in infinite-dimensional, non-hierarchical modular networks

Wesley Cota, Géza Ódor, Silvio C. Ferreira

Griffiths phases (GPs), generated by the heterogeneities on modular networks, have recently been suggested to provide a mechanism, rid of fine parameter tuning, to explain the crit…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 98 cited

Evolutionary dynamics of cooperation in neutral populations

Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

Cooperation is a difficult proposition in the face of Darwinian selection. Those that defect have an evolutionary advantage over cooperators who should therefore die out. However,…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 123 cited

Leaders should not be conformists in evolutionary social dilemmas

Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

The most common assumption in evolutionary game theory is that players should adopt a strategy that warrants the highest payoff. However, recent studies indicate that the spatial s…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 84 cited

Collective influence in evolutionary social dilemmas

Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

When evolutionary games are contested in structured populations, the degree of each player in the network plays an important role. If they exist, hubs often determine the fate of t…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 52 cited

The coevolution of overconfidence and bluffing in the resource competition game

Kun Li, Attila Szolnoki, Rui Cong +1

Resources are often limited, therefore it is essential how convincingly competitors present their claims for them. Beside a player's natural capacity, here overconfidence and bluff…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 37 cited

Griffiths effects of the susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemic model on random power-law networks

Wesley Cota, Silvio C. Ferreira, Géza Ódor

We provide numerical evidence for slow dynamics of the susceptible-infected-susceptible model evolving on finite-size random networks with power-law degree distributions. Extensive…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 67 cited

Vortices determine the dynamics of biodiversity in cyclical interactions with protection spillovers

Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

If rock beats scissors and scissors beat paper, one might assume that rock beats paper too. But this is not the case for intransitive relationships that make up the famous rock-pap…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 99 cited

Benefits of tolerance in public goods games

Attila Szolnoki, Xiaojie Chen

Leaving the joint enterprise when defection is unveiled is always a viable option to avoid being exploited. Although loner strategy helps the population not to be trapped into the…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 289 cited

Competition and cooperation among different punishing strategies in the spatial public goods game

Xiaojie Chen, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

Inspired by the fact that people have diverse propensities to punish wrongdoers, we study a spatial public goods game with defectors and different types of punishing cooperators. D…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 82 cited

Evolutionary potential games on lattices

Gyorgy Szabo, Istvan Borsos

Game theory provides a general mathematical background to study the effect of pair interactions and evolutionary rules on the macroscopic behavior of multi-player games where playe…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 141 cited

Different perceptions of social dilemmas: Evolutionary multigames in structured populations

Zhen Wang, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

Motivated by the fact that the same social dilemma can be perceived differently by different players, we here study evolutionary multigames in structured populations. While the cor…