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SUBMITTER: Wardil L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4101522 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wardil Lucas L Hauert Christoph C
Scientific reports 20140717
Societies are built on social interactions among individuals. Cooperation represents the simplest form of a social interaction: one individual provides a benefit to another one at a cost to itself. Social networks represent a dynamical abstraction of social interactions in a society. The behaviour of an individual towards others and of others towards the individual shape the individual's neighbourhood and hence the local structure of the social network. Here we propose a simple theoretical frame ...[more]