Structural heterogeneity mediates the effect of community structure on cooperation

Xie, Fengjie; Cui, Wentian; Lin, Jun

doi:10.1002/cplx.20397

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“…Several network models are based on the two models for characterizing various structural properties of a complex network, such as degree correlation and community structure and mixing pattern [60]. These structural properties have significant effects on cooperation evolution [53,54,61,62]. Then, it would be interesting to investigate the possible influence of running the current price competition model on other network models.…”

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“…Price evolution is carried out implementing the rule of imitate best. In the previous studies of the evolutionary game on complex networks, various imitation rules are provided, such as imitate best [46,[49][50][51], imitate better with probability [46,[52][53][54], and imitate better with probability and error [46,55,56]. Here, we use the rule of imitate best, because the work of Huck et al provides experimental evidence that firms imitate the most successful behavior, that is, the best one [39,40].…”

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The Evolution of Price Competition Game on Complex Networks

Xie

Shi

2018

Complexity

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The well-known “Bertrand paradox” describes a price competition game in which two competing firms reach an outcome where both charge a price equal to the marginal cost. The fact that the Bertrand paradox often goes against empirical evidences has intrigued many researchers. In this work, we study the game from a new theoretical perspective—an evolutionary game on complex networks. Three classic network models, square lattice, WS small-world network, and BA scale-free network, are used to describe the competitive relations among the firms which are bounded rational. The analysis result shows that full price keeping is one of the evolutionary equilibriums in a well-mixed interaction situation. Detailed experiment results indicate that the price-keeping phenomenon emerges in a square lattice, small-world network and scale-free network much more frequently than in a complete network which represents the well-mixed interaction situation. While the square lattice has little advantage in achieving full price keeping, the small-world network and the scale-free network exhibit a stronger capability in full price keeping than the complete network. This means that a complex competitive relation is a crucial factor for maintaining the price in the real world. Moreover, competition scale, original price, degree of cutting price, and demand sensitivity to price show a significant influence on price evolution on a complex network. The payoff scheme, which describes how each firm’s payoff is calculated in each round game, only influences the price evolution on the scale-free network. These results provide new and important insights for understanding price competition in the real world.

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The Evolution of Price Competition Game on Complex Networks

Xie

Shi

2018

Complexity

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“…Nonetheless, in networks with low level of structural heterogeneity, community structure is found to have negative effects on cooperation. On the other hand, the positive effects of community structure on cooperation appears only when the structural heterogeneity is high enough [5] as observed in studies carried out in evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game. In this paper, we explore the effect of community structure on cooperation among members of a population who share a common pool resource by coupling cooperative dynamics of the social network to dynamics of the resource.…”

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Influence of Community Structure on Cooperative Dynamics in Coupled Socio-ecological Systems

Chung¹,

Chew²,

Lai³

2014

Acta Phys. Pol. B Proc. Suppl.

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We explore the influence of community structure on the effectiveness of social sanction in promoting cooperative behavior in populations sharing common pool resources. We found that the formation of community within a population is not necessarily associated with a higher level of cooperation. In fact, our results show that defectors tend to survive better in populations with weak community structure. Nonetheless, as we further strengthened the community structure within a social network, we uncovered the occurrence of a transition towards a regime of greater cooperation. In this respect, our results provide deeper insights into the manner in which governance structures can have important influence on the management of coupled socio-ecological systems.

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“…Agent‐based modeling (ABM) has been extensively used to understand the nonlinear dynamics of collective action . In this model, individuals are represented as agents, and each of them makes a decision (such as whether to participate) based on the behavior of surrounding agents.…”

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Cultural differences and collective action: A social network perspective

Lin

Cui

2014

Complexity

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This study investigates how cultural differences on the individualism-collectivism (I-C) dimension of social networks influence the outcomes of collective action. Evidence shows that I-C values are indicators of how people construct their social networks and use strong/weak ties as a behavioral reference. Specifically, when compared with individualists, collectivists tend to hold larger strong-tie networks and endow strong ties with greater interpersonal influence. Results obtained from agent-based modeling indicate that individualistic cultures are more effective at propagating collective action when one of the two following conditions is met: (1) people have a strong motivation to participate and (2) the connectivity of the social system is low. In contrast, spread of collective action in collectivistic cultures is more effective when motivation is not strong and the connectivity of the social system is high. These findings call for a serious consideration of the role of culture in collective action. V C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 20: [68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77] 2015

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Structural heterogeneity mediates the effect of community structure on cooperation

Cited by 6 publications

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The Evolution of Price Competition Game on Complex Networks

The Evolution of Price Competition Game on Complex Networks

Influence of Community Structure on Cooperative Dynamics in Coupled Socio-ecological Systems

Cultural differences and collective action: A social network perspective

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