3 papers
cs.AI2026
Co-evolution of social reward and punishment under institutional interventions
Van An Nguyen, Vuong Khang Huynh, Hoai Thuong Nguyen +14
We investigate how peer and institutional incentives jointly shape the evolution of cooperation, social welfare, and enforcement efficiency in social dilemmas. In a Prisoners Dilem…
cs.GT2026
Social welfare optimisation under institutional reward and punishment
Van An Nguyen, Vuong Khang Huynh, Huu Loi Bui +8
Institutional incentives are widely used to promote cooperation among autonomous, self-regarding agents, from human societies to multi-agent and AI systems. Existing work typically…
physics.soc-ph2025
Social welfare optimisation in well-mixed and structured populations
Van An Nguyen, Vuong Khang Huynh, Ho Nam Duong +10
Research on promoting cooperation among autonomous, self-regarding agents has often focused on the bi-objective optimisation problem: minimising the total incentive cost while maxi…