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Collective action in the provision of pubic goods is analyzed in the framework of three kinds of public goods dilemmas routinely encountered in real-life situations. We study the evolution of cooperation in structured populations within three PGG models: the traditional public goods game (PGG), complementary public goods game (PPGG) and containable public goods game (TPGG), differing in supplying patterns of public goods. In addition, we extend the combination of dual strategy (cooperation and defection) to a portfolio of multiple strategies. We reveal that, is a fundamental property promoting cooperation in groups of selfish individuals, irrespective of which social dilemma applies. For a parallel comparison, it is found that the system in PGG and PPGG can perform comparatively better than TPGG, which reduces the provision of the public goods. Our study can be helpful in effectively portraying the characteristics of cooperative dilemmas in real social systems.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61603199, 61603201 and 61573199), and the Foundation of Key Laboratory of Machine Intelligence and Advanced Computing of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. MSC-201709A).
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Xu, Z., Li, Q., Zhang, J. (2017). Collective Actions in Three Types of Continuous Public Goods Games in Spatial Networks. In: Liu, D., Xie, S., Li, Y., Zhao, D., El-Alfy, ES. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10638. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70139-4_69
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