Francisco C. Santos
Instituto Superior Técnico
194 Papers
467 Citations
Francisco C. Santos is an academic researcher from Instituto Superior Técnico. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Evolutionary game theory. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 185 publications. Previous affiliations of Francisco C. Santos include Technical University of Lisbon & United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Papers
Scale-free networks provide a unifying framework for the emergence of cooperation.
TL;DR: It is found that, whenever individuals interact following networks of contacts generated via growth and preferential attachment, cooperation becomes the dominating trait throughout the entire range of parameters of both games, as such providing a unifying framework for the emergence of cooperation.
Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games
TL;DR: This work introduces social diversity by means of heterogeneous graphs and shows that cooperation is promoted by the diversity associated with the number and size of the public goods game in which each individual participates and with the individual contribution to each such game.
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Evolutionary dynamics of social dilemmas in structured heterogeneous populations
TL;DR: It is shown that, for all dilemmas, increasing heterogeneity favors the emergence of cooperation, such that long-term cooperative behavior easily resists short-term noncooperative behavior.
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Cooperation prevails when individuals adjust their social ties.
TL;DR: In this paper, a computational model is constructed in which individuals are able to self-organize both their strategy and their social ties throughout evolution, based exclusively on their self-interest.
Graph topology plays a determinant role in the evolution of cooperation
TL;DR: It is shown that cooperation dominates from large population sizes down to communities with nearly 100 individuals, even when extrinsic factors set a limit on the number of interactions that each individual may engage in.