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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,744 Views
16 Pages

30 May 2023

In the game of rock-paper-scissors with three players, this paper identifies conditions for a correlated equilibrium that differs from the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium and is evolutionarily stable. For this to occur, the correlation device attache...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,697 Views
21 Pages

8 April 2021

Honeypot has been regarded as an active defense technology that can deceive attackers by simulating real systems. However, honeypot is actually a static network trap with fixed disposition, which is easily identified by anti-honeypot technology. Thus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,258 Views
18 Pages

3 December 2020

Inspired by the Daley-Kendall and Goffman-Newill models, we propose an Ignorant-Believer-Unbeliever rumor (or fake news) spreading model with the following characteristics: (i) a network contact between individuals that determines the spread of rumor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,388 Views
17 Pages

29 December 2020

Here, we propose a computational approach to explore evolutionary fitness in complex biological systems based on empirical data using artificial neural networks. The essence of our approach is the following. We first introduce a ranking order of inhe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,857 Views
29 Pages

14 September 2019

The government plays a critical role in the promotion of recycling strategy among supply chain members. The purpose of this study is to investigate the optimal government policies on closed-loop supply chains and how these policies impact the market...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,296 Views
18 Pages

24 November 2021

We formalize the adversarial process between defender and attackers as a game and study the non-cooperative evolutionary game mechanism under bounded rationality. We analyze the long-term dynamic process between the attacking and defending parties us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,896 Views
12 Pages

25 February 2002

The application of information theory to biology can be broadly split into three areas: (i) At the level of the genome; considering the storage of information using the genetic code. (ii) At the level of the individual animal; communication between a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,135 Views
25 Pages

4 September 2025

Vertical alliances within agricultural supply chains serve as critical institutional vehicles for deepening triple-sector integration (primary–secondary–tertiary) in rural economies, driving agricultural modernization, and advancing rural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
737 Views
36 Pages

24 April 2025

Mine water is both wastewater and a valuable unconventional water resource, and its recycling is crucial for the sustainable development of coal-resource-based cities. In response to the complex interactions among multiple stakeholders in the process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
127 Citations
21,732 Views
25 Pages

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Adaptive Dynamics

  • Åke Brännström,
  • Jacob Johansson and
  • Niels Von Festenberg

24 June 2013

Adaptive dynamics is a mathematical framework for studying evolution. It extends evolutionary game theory to account for more realistic ecological dynamics and it can incorporate both frequency- and density-dependent selection. This is a practical gu...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Over-the-Air updates have emerged as a critical competitive frontier in the Software-Defined Vehicle era. While offering value creation opportunities, automakers face strategic uncertainty regarding pricing models (e.g., subscription vs. one-time pur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,445 Views
12 Pages

27 October 2022

Food safety liability has required consideration around the world. It is realistic to establish a system of food safety liability insurance. However, the existing difficulties include members’ behavior decisions, influential factors, and the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,150 Views
21 Pages

11 January 2025

Manufacturers and consumers are boundedly rational and ultimately seek evolutionarily stable strategies through trial and error, imitation, and learning. It is important to study the pricing strategies of manufacturers and the purchasing channel deci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,289 Views
17 Pages

The Stability of Two-Community Replicator Dynamics with Discrete Multi-Delays

  • Jinxiu Pi,
  • Hui Yang,
  • Yadong Shu,
  • Chongyi Zhong and
  • Guanghui Yang

26 November 2020

This article investigates the stability of evolutionarily stable strategy in replicator dynamics of two-community with multi-delays. In the real environment, players interact simultaneously while the return of their choices may not be observed immedi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,283 Views
21 Pages

7 January 2025

The Machine-Managed Bidding (MMB) system is an innovative bidding mode implemented by the Chinese government to mitigate collusive bidding behavior. Prior studies have focused minimally on the bidding mechanism and the possible collusive bidding beha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
157 Views
23 Pages

Research on Source–Grid–Load–Storage Coordinated Optimization and Evolutionarily Stable Strategies for High Renewable Energy

  • Yu Shi,
  • Yiwen Yao,
  • Yiran Li,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Rui Zhou,
  • Xiaomin Lu,
  • Xinhong Wang,
  • Dingheng Wang,
  • Xuefeng Gao and
  • Zhe Ma
  • + 3 authors

14 January 2026

In the context of large-scale renewable energy integration driven by China’s dual-carbon goals, and under distribution network scenarios with continuously increasing shares of wind and photovoltaic generation, this paper proposes a source&ndash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,124 Views
27 Pages

With the rapid development of global industry and economy, excessive carbon dioxide emission has emerged as a critical issue in both developed and developing countries. Using an evolutionary game framework in which game players can adjust their strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,484 Views
17 Pages

2 December 2024

The promotion of energy conservation and emission reduction involves a multi-party game among governments, enterprises, and other stakeholders. To explore the game relationships among governments, the public, and coal-fired power enterprises under th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,513 Views
19 Pages

7 March 2025

This paper examines federated learning, a decentralized machine learning paradigm, focusing on privacy challenges. We introduce differential privacy mechanisms to protect privacy and quantify their impact on global model performance. Using evolutiona...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
97 Citations
8,675 Views
10 Pages

11 December 2018

Lateralization, i.e., the different functional roles played by the left and right sides of the brain, is expressed in two main ways: (1) in single individuals, regardless of a common direction (bias) in the population (aka individual-level lateraliza...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,152 Views
16 Pages

With increasing downstream carbon emissions, the implementation of a personal carbon trading scheme is urgently required. In order to facilitate the progress, government departments are supposed to adopt a motivating or punitive policy to make guidan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,567 Views
12 Pages

16 March 2020

In this paper, we consider evolutionary games and construct a model of replicator dynamics with bounded continuously distributed time delay. In many circumstances, players interact simultaneously while impacts of their choices take place after some t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,784 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2019

Since social dilemmas among n-persons are often embedded in other types of social exchanges, the exclusion of defectors in social dilemmas from other exchanges functions as a costless selective incentive. Recently, such “linkage” has been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,928 Views
21 Pages

24 April 2015

Water emission trading (WET) is promising in sustainable development strategy. However, low participation impedes its development. We develop an evolutionary game model of two enterprise populations’ dynamics and stability in the decision-making be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,669 Views
16 Pages

28 December 2021

The dynamic evolution game model is built by using evolutionary game theory, and the evolutionarily stable strategy is analyzed by matlab2018b software in this paper. The cooperation willingness, sharing level, income distribution, and punishment mec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,684 Views
12 Pages

11 May 2019

An evolutionary model of European football was applied to analyze a two-stage indirect evolution game in which teams choose their utility function in the first stage, and their optimal talent investments in the second stage. Given the second-stage op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,239 Views
28 Pages

The rural ecotourism system can be defined as a complex association of stakeholders. This system of rural ecotourism in relatively poor areas of China can influence rural revitalization strategies. The purpose of this study is to plan a rural ecotour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,753 Views
19 Pages

Game Analysis and Simulation Study of Hydropower Development Interests

  • Bingwen Liu,
  • Kaiwen Yao,
  • Feilong Wang,
  • Dan Zhang and
  • Xu Chi

27 July 2022

In China, hydropower development is an important strategic initiative for the structural reform of energy supply and the development of poor areas. With technology at a mature stage, hydropower development is now constrained by relocation issues. Bui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,486 Views
14 Pages

7 November 2019

Exploring the relationship between competition and cooperation in water resource exploitation by applying a game model is crucial for achieving stable equilibrium in the presence of environmental externalities. To explore this, we used the Poyang Lak...

  • Article
  • Open Access
771 Views
14 Pages

To address the limitations of the RRT-series algorithm and its variants, which have demonstrated a lack of dynamic adaptability in various environments, poor path quality, slow convergence rates, and a tendency to become trapped in local optima, this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,097 Views
21 Pages

29 May 2025

This study employs an evolutionary game theory framework to analyze the interactive learning, imitation, and strategic evolution among multiple actors within China’s aquatic product traceability system. It focuses on four types of strategic int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,148 Views
19 Pages

The Evolution of Ambiguity in Sender—Receiver Signaling Games

  • Roland Mühlenbernd,
  • Sławomir Wacewicz and
  • Przemysław Żywiczyński

22 February 2022

We study an extended version of a sender–receiver signaling game—a context-signaling (CS) game that involves external contextual cues that provide information about a sender’s private information state. A formal evolutionary analysi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,835 Views
15 Pages

1 March 2023

Network environments have recently emerged as a considerable research area. In addition to government supervision, platform supervision is also critical to improve network environments. So, we should improve the social network platform’s single...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,620 Views
19 Pages

8 October 2023

Target assignment has been a hot topic of research in the academic and industrial communities for swarms of multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAVs). Traditional methods mainly focus on cooperative target assignment in planes, and they ignore th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,529 Views
20 Pages

Evolutionary Games of Low-Carbon Behaviors of Construction Stakeholders under Carbon Taxes

  • Qiang Du,
  • Yunqing Yan,
  • Youdan Huang,
  • Chanchan Hao and
  • Jiao Wu

The development of low-carbon buildings (LCBs) in China has not reached its expected status, although the Chinese government has formulated many relevant regulations. The real estate developers and consumers are essential participants in the developm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,846 Views
17 Pages

19 July 2018

The public-private-partnership (PPP) is a new mode for the government and social capital to jointly invest in public infrastructure projects. In particular, PPP projects for new energy power construction have been strongly supported in some countries...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,610 Views
47 Pages

4 October 2024

In the context of increasing global efforts to mitigate climate change, effective carbon emission reduction is a pressing issue. Governments and power companies are key stakeholders in implementing low-carbon strategies, but their interactions requir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
496 Views
35 Pages

2 October 2025

High-quality development highlights the importance of environmental protection and green low-carbon development. The high-quality development of the manufacturing industry is not only the key content for achieving green transformation, but also an im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,595 Views
21 Pages

31 October 2024

This study investigates the evolutionary game dynamics among electric vehicle distribution entities in the context of shared charging facilities, addressing the critical issue of inadequate charging resources. To understand the behavior of different...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,943 Views
20 Pages

2 November 2022

The enhancement of green animal husbandry has a significant effect on carbon emissions, carbon neutrality, and ecological development. Promoting the production transformation of polluting enterprises has caught the attention of local governments, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,532 Views
19 Pages

A Blockchain-Based Incentive Mechanism for Sharing Cyber Threat Intelligence

  • Xingbang Ma,
  • Dongsheng Yu,
  • Yanhui Du,
  • Lanting Li,
  • Wenkai Ni and
  • Haibin Lv

With the development of the Internet, cyberattacks are becoming increasingly complex, sustained, and organized. Cyber threat intelligence sharing is one of the effective ways to alleviate the pressure on organizational or individual cyber security de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,131 Views
18 Pages

2 October 2022

Digital financial innovation is a new impetus for economic and social development. However, lack of regulation will also have a huge impact on economic and social development. In this paper, an evolutionary game model of digital finance innovation is...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,572 Views
28 Pages

Metabolic Rewiring of Bacterial Pathogens in Response to Antibiotic Pressure—A Molecular Perspective

  • Carlo Acierno,
  • Fannia Barletta,
  • Riccardo Nevola,
  • Luca Rinaldi,
  • Ferdinando Carlo Sasso,
  • Luigi Elio Adinolfi and
  • Alfredo Caturano

Antibiotic pressure exerts profound effects on bacterial physiology, not limited to classical genetic resistance mechanisms. Increasing evidence highlights the ability of pathogens to undergo metabolic rewiring—an adaptive, reversible reorganiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,631 Views
17 Pages

This study constructs the enterprise alliance game party, designs the mechanism for which the alliance and the government are jointly responsible for enterprise carbon emission reduction work, and explores the evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,698 Views
23 Pages

28 July 2024

To address the complexities of national park management within China, this study investigated the evolutionary game between central and local governments in the context of Sanjiangyuan National Park, to explore strategic behavior and goal displacemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,232 Views
16 Pages

27 September 2023

Biogas can be regarded as a dispatchable renewable source when changing into the demand-oriented operation mode (DO), thus could be used for complementing with solar and wind power in distributed energy system (DES) as a substitute for chemical energ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,014 Views
25 Pages

9 November 2025

Agricultural supply chain finance plays a vital role in alleviating the financing constraints faced by agricultural business entities in developing countries and promoting inclusive and sustainable agricultural development. However, issues such as hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,696 Views
21 Pages

Agricultural machinery services are an important guaranteed way to promote Conservation Agriculture. It is of great significance to study how to encourage farmers to choose agricultural machinery services to promote the standard implementation of Con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,768 Views
24 Pages

Evidence shows that there are many work-related accidents and injuries happening in construction projects and governments have taken a series of administrative measures to reduce casualties in recent years. However, traditional approaches have reache...

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