4 papers
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…
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…
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…
Complete strategy spaces reveal hidden pathways to cooperation
Zhao Song, Ndidi Bianca Ogbo, Xinyu Wang +3
Understanding how cooperation emerges and persists is a central challenge in evolutionary game theory. Existing models often rely on restricted, hand-picked strategy sets, which ca…