3 papers
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
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…
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…