most citedMutation mitigates finite-size effects in spatial evolutionary games

22 citations · 56 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CY2026

Online Safety Regulation Increases Attention to VPNs: Privacy Implications of the UK Online Safety Act

Dhyey Mehta, Eldar Jalilzade, Maksim Kalameyets +5

Governments worldwide are increasingly regulating digital platforms to reduce online harms, but access restrictions can alter user behaviour and create new privacy risks. The UK On…

physics.soc-ph2026

Evolutionary Dynamics of Reputation-Based Voluntary Prisoner's Dilemma Games

Chen Shen, Zhao Song, Xinyu Wang +4

Cooperation underlies many natural and artificial systems. While voluntary participation can sustain cooperation without informational assumptions, real interactions are rarely ano…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 22 cited

Mutation mitigates finite-size effects in spatial evolutionary games

Chen Shen, Zhixue He, Lei Shi +1

Agent-based simulations are essential for studying cooperation on spatial networks. However, finite-size effects -- random fluctuations due to limited network sizes -- can cause ce…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

Overcoming the Machine Penalty with Imperfectly Fair AI Agents

Zhen Wang, Ruiqi Song, Chen Shen +7

Despite rapid technological progress, effective human-machine cooperation remains a significant challenge. Humans tend to cooperate less with machines than with fellow humans, a ph…

physics.soc-ph2024

Unbiased third-party bots lead to a tradeoff between cooperation and social payoffs

Zhixue He, Chen Shen, Lei Shi +1

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to influence cooperative dynamics with greater applicability and control. In this paper, we examine the impact of…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 14 cited

Beyond a binary theorizing of prosociality

Chen Shen, Zhixue He, Hao Guo +4

A stylized experiment, the public goods game, has taught us the peculiar reproducible fact that humans tend to contribute more to shared resources than expected from economically r…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 2 cited

Constructive agents nullify the ability of destructive agents to foster cooperation in public goods games

Yuting Dong, Zhixue He, Chen Shen +2

Existing studies have revealed a paradoxical phenomenon in public goods games, wherein destructive agents, harming both cooperators and defectors, can unexpectedly bolster cooperat…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 11 cited

Enhancing social cohesion with cooperative bots in societies of greedy, mobile individuals

Lei Shi, Zhixue He, Chen Shen +1

Addressing collective issues in social development requires a high level of social cohesion, characterized by cooperation and close social connections. However, social cohesion is…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 6 cited

Stability of pairwise social dilemma games: destructive agents, constructive agents, and their joint effects

Khadija Khatun, Chen Shen, Lei Shi +1

Destructive agents, who opt out of the game and indiscriminately harm others, paradoxically foster cooperation, representing an intriguing variant of the voluntary participation st…