3 papers
cs.GT2026
Resolving Envy by Adding Goods with Bounded Supply: A Type-Count Dichotomy and Two-Agent Hardness
Chuang-Chieh Lin, Guillaume Fertin, Po-An Chen +4
We study envy elimination by adding goods (EEAG) when the additional pool has bounded supply and no separate budget bound. We establish a sharp type-count dichotomy for binary addi…
physics.soc-ph2025
Context-sensitive norm enforcement reduces sanctioning costs in spatial public goods games
Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki
Uniform punishment policies can sustain cooperation in social dilemmas but impose severe costs on enforcers, creating a second-order free-rider problem that undermines the very mec…
physics.soc-ph2024
Suppressing defection by increasing temptation: the impact of smart cooperators on a social dilemma situation
Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki
In a social dilemma situation, where individual and collective interests are in conflict, it sounds a reasonable assumption that the presence of super or smart players, who simulta…