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ArticlePloS one2015

The dynamic consequences of cooperation and competition in small-world networks.

Iván Y Fernández-Rosales, Larry S Liebovitch, Lev Guzmán-Vargas

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
9.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Iván Y Fernández-RosalesDepartamento de Física, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México DF, México.
Larry S LiebovitchDepartment of Physics, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY, USA; Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Lev Guzmán-VargasUnidad Profesional interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México DF, México.
Instituto Politécnico Nacional · MXColumbia University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a study of the social dynamics among cooperative and competitive actors interacting on a complex network that has a small-world topology. In this model, the state of each actor depends on its previous state in time, its inertia to change, and the influence of its neighboring actors. Using numerical simulations, we determine how the distribution of final states of the actors and measures of the distances between the values of the actors at local and global levels, depend on the number of cooperative to competitive actors and the connectivity of the actors in the network. We find that similar numbers of cooperative and competitive actors yield the lowest values for the local and global measures of the distances between the values of the actors. On the other hand, when the number of either cooperative or competitive actors dominate the system, then the divergence is largest between the values of the actors. Our findings make new testable predictions on how the dynamics of a conflict depends on the strategies chosen by groups of actors and also have implications for the evolution of behaviors.

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Competitive BehaviorCooperative BehaviorAlgorithmsBiological EvolutionGame TheoryHumansInterpersonal Relations

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PMID25927995
PMCPMC4416009
OpenAlexW2077991934

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