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Emergent leader-follower relationship in networked multiagent systems

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A new mixed-population game dynamics was studied in the prisoner’s dilemma game with voluntary participation. We found that the leader-follower relationship emerges among the population, and EGPs are the main participant in cooperation, while RLPs perform like leaders who encourage EGPs to cooperate. There is an optimal value of the ratio of the two-game dynamics that promotes cooperation.

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This work was supported by National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholarship of China (Grant No. 62025602), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11931015, 11971421, 12271471, 62066045, 62366058, U22B2036), Excellent Youths Project for Basic Research of Yunnan Province (Grant No. 202101AW070015), Science Foundation of Yunnan Province (No. 202001BB050063), Open Foundation of Key Laboratory in Software Engineering of Yunnan Province (Grant No. 2020SE407), Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation, China (Grant No. 171105), and the Tencent Foundation and XPLORER PRIZE.

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  1. School of Software, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, China

    Jinzhuo Liu, Chenyou Fan, Yunchen Peng & Jinze Du

  2. School of Statistics and Mathematics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, 650221, China

    Chen Chu

  3. School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics and Electronics (iOPEN), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    Jinzhuo Liu, Zhen Wang & Chen Chu

  4. School of Cybersecurity, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    Zhen Wang

  5. Engineering Research Center of Cyberspace, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, China

    Jinzhuo Liu

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Liu, J., Fan, C., Peng, Y. et al. Emergent leader-follower relationship in networked multiagent systems. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 66, 229201 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-022-3741-3

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