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most citedCooperation amongst competing agents in minority games

29 citations · 115 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 4 cited

Effect of shape anisotropy on percolation of aligned and overlapping objects on lattices

Jasna C. K., V. Sasidevan

We investigate the percolation transition of aligned, overlapping, anisotropic shapes on lattices. Using the recently proposed lattice version of excluded volume theory, we show th…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 7 cited

Social adaptive behavior and oscillatory prevalence in an epidemic model on evolving random geometric graphs

Akhil Panicker, V Sasidevan

Our recent experience with the COVID-19 pandemic amply shows that spatial effects like the mobility of agents and average interpersonal distance, together with the adaptation of ag…

q-fin.TR2019★ 4 cited

Systemic Risk: Fire-Walling Financial Systems Using Network-Based Approaches

V. Sasidevan, Nils Bertschinger

The latest financial crisis has painfully revealed the dangers arising from a globally interconnected financial system. Conventional approaches based on the notion of the existence…

physics.soc-ph2019

Is Life (or at least socio-economic aspects of it) just Spin and Games?

Shakti N. Menon, V. Sasidevan, Sitabhra Sinha

The enterprise of trying to explain different social and economic phenomena using concepts and ideas drawn from physics has a long history. Statistical mechanics, in particular, ha…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 22 cited

Epidemic prevalence information on social networks mediates emergent collective outcomes in voluntary vaccine schemes

Anupama Sharma, Shakti N. Menon, V. Sasidevan +1

The success of a vaccination program is crucially dependent on its adoption by a critical fraction of the population, as the resulting herd immunity prevents future outbreaks of an…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 5 cited

When Big Data Fails! Relative success of adaptive agents using coarse-grained information to compete for limited resources

V. Sasidevan, Appilineni Kushal, Sitabhra Sinha

The recent trend for acquiring big data assumes that possessing quantitatively more and qualitatively finer data necessarily provides an advantage that may be critical in competiti…