In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...
This paper addresses the issue of emergence of robust cooperation among self-interested agents interacting in N-player social dilemma games. A series of graphs are created each ex...
Social networks are the substrate upon which we make and evaluate many of our daily decisions: our costs and benefits depend on whether--or how many of, or which of--our friends ar...
Joshua R. Davis, Zachary Goldman, Jacob Hilty, Eli...
In this paper we demonstrate how a qualitative framework for decision making can be used to model scenarios from experimental economic studies and we show how our approach explains...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkinson, Peter Mc...
Conflict theory can be used to explain the interactions between societies during times of turmoil and change (i.e. revolutions, strikes or everyday debates). Games have been produ...