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most citedSupporting punishment via taxation in a structured population

40 citations · 119 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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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★ 3 cited

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★ 2 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 40 cited

Supporting punishment via taxation in a structured population

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

Taxes are an essential and uniformly applied institution for maintaining modern societies. However, the levels of taxation remain an intensive debate topic among citizens. If each…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 9 cited

Restoring spatial cooperation with myopic agents in a three-strategy social dilemma

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

Introducing strategy complexity into the basic conflict of cooperation and defection is a natural response to avoid the tragedy of the common state. As an intermediate approach, qu…

cs.SI2023

Graphlet and Orbit Computation on Heterogeneous Graphs

Colin Cleveland, Chin-Yen Lee, Shen-Fu Tsai +2

Many applications, ranging from natural to social sciences, rely on graphlet analysis for the intuitive and meaningful characterization of networks employing micro-level structures…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 20 cited

Group-size dependent synergy in heterogeneous populations

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

When people collaborate, they expect more in return than a simple sum of their efforts. This observation is at the heart of the so-called public goods game, where the participants'…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 28 cited

When costly migration helps to improve cooperation

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

Motion is a typical reaction among animals and humans trying to reach better conditions in a changing world. This aspect has been studied intensively in social dilemmas where compe…

physics.soc-ph2021

Mercenary punishment in structured populations

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

Punishing those who refuse to participate in common efforts is a known and intensively studied way to maintain cooperation among self-interested agents. But this act is costly, hen…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 17 cited

Small Fraction of Selective Cooperators Can Elevate General Wellbeing Significantly

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

A cooperative player invests effort into a common venture without knowing the partner's intention in advance. But this strategy can be implemented in various ways when a player is…