{"title":"Group size dynamics for a group following game with shared rewards","authors":"Thomas A. Wettergren","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129470","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129470","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We consider a population game in which a group of mobile individuals must repeatedly decide between two strategies: following other neighbors or moving on their own. When following others there is an improvement due to directed motion but a sharing of the credit for any rewards obtained. Conversely, the individual strategy provides for a full share of the credit for any rewards obtained at the cost of less-directed motion. This process leads to a dilemma with dynamically adjusting strategies and a resulting dynamic change in the number of group followers. The process is modeled as an evolutionary game with simple parameters that describe the differences in the motion opportunities and the sharing of rewards. A detailed analysis of the dynamics of the game is presented to show how the parameters affect the resulting equilibria solutions. Numerical methods are used to validate the analysis conclusions and simulations are performed to validate the analytical model of the evolutionary game.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"501 ","pages":"Article 129470"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The influence of reputation levels and disparities on the evolution of cooperation in spatial prisoner's dilemma game","authors":"Yan Bi , Qingyi Hao , Kui Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129473","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129473","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Benefiting from the development of information science and technology, more and more scholars use various complex networks as evolutionary carriers to research evolutionary game theory, which leads to the gradual unraveling of many evolutionary mechanisms. The reputation mechanism is particularly interesting and important among many mechanisms. Therefore, it has received widespread attention and research from related researchers, which is also mainly attributed to the important effect of reputation in promoting cooperation of evolution system. However, until now, the role of reputation mechanism in facilitating the evolution of cooperation has not been completely accurately revealed. In reality, the mechanism of mutual imitation of behaviors between interactive individuals based on reputation factors is still an interesting and unsolved problem. In this work, a novel evolutionary mechanism is proposed based on reputation levels and disparities, in which the evolutionary strategy of imitator is influenced by the reputation disparities of the imitated and the imitator. Moreover, based on the proposed evolutionary mechanism, this paper also explores the influence of reputation levels on the evolution of cooperation. Monte Carlo simulations verify that the proposed evolutionary mechanism is easier to promote cooperation of evolution system, especially when the reputation weight factor is larger, or the number of reputation levels is fewer, compared with the traditional PDG model. The study also indirectly reveals that streamlining the institutions is easy to promote social harmony and development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"501 ","pages":"Article 129473"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal tracking and regulation performance of networked control systems with additive colored Gaussian noise and finite bandwidth","authors":"Bin Zhang , Da-Wei Ding","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129469","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129469","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the optimal tracking and regulation performance of networked control systems (NCSs) with additive colored Gaussian noise (ACGN) and finite bandwidth. The bandwidth-limited channel is described as a non-minimum phase channel, which introduces additional restrictions on performance due to potential non-minimum-phase zeros (NMPZs). The optimal tracking and regulation performance of NCSs is derived using a frequency-domain analysis method and a two-degree-of-freedom control (TDOF) scheme. It is shown that the optimal tracking and regulation performance has a close relation with the intrinsic characteristic of the plant, NMPZs in the channel, bandwidth, and ACGN. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified through numerical simulations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"501 ","pages":"Article 129469"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An improved RBF-WENO scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws","authors":"Yang Sun, Ai-Qi Han","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129472","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129472","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, a novel fifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme by using radial basis function (RBF) is proposed to solve hyperbolic conservation laws. The key idea is to choose multi-quadric (MQ) RBF and trigonometric function to construct numerical flux and smoothness indicator respectively. First, we modify the RBF interpolation making it into the WENO reconstruction framework along with representing it by a perturbation of polynomial. The explicit form of disturbance term on each stencil is given. Through selecting the appropriate shape parameters of MQ RBF, the relevant WENO scheme achieves sixth-order accuracy than other well-known fifth-order WENO schemes under some conditions. Moreover, some differential operators based on trigonometric function space are employed to obtain new smoothness indicators that efficiently evaluates the sharp change of gradient on the candidate stencil. To highlight the effectiveness of the proposed WENO scheme, this new scheme is applied to several one and two-dimensional hyperbolic test problems, and compared with the existing schemes such as WENO-JS, WENO-M and WENO-Z. The numerical results show higher accuracy can be achieved in the smooth regions of the solutions, and no non-physical oscillations occur near the discontinuities, which verifies the higher resolution property and the better discontinuity-capturing ability of the improved scheme.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"501 ","pages":"Article 129472"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long time H1-norm stability and suboptimal convergence of a fully discrete L2-version compact difference method on nonuniform mesh grids to solve fourth-order subdiffusion equations","authors":"Huifa Jiang , Emran Tohidi","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129465","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129465","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study introduces a designed <em>L</em>2 compact approach for the fourth-order subdiffusion models on general nonuniform meshes. Initially, we establish long-time <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>-stability and estimation of the error for the <em>L</em>2 compact approach under general nonuniform meshes, imposing only mild conditions on the time step ratio <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ρ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>k</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>. This is achieved by leveraging the positive semidefiniteness of an essential bilinear form linked to the operator of <em>L</em>2 fractional derivative discussed by Quan and Wu (2023) <span><span>[26]</span></span>. Subsequently, we proceed to discretize the spatial differentiation using the compact difference approach, resulting in a fully discrete scheme that achieves the convergence of fourth-order for the space variable. Additionally, we demonstrate that the rate of convergence in the <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>-norm is the half of <span><math><mo>(</mo><mn>5</mn><mo>−</mo><mi>α</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> for the improved graded mesh grids. Lastly, we conduct some numerical experiments to validate the robustness and competitiveness of our suggested approach.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"501 ","pages":"Article 129465"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143832562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kien Trung Phan, Anh Duc Nguyen, Thuy Phuong Nguyen
{"title":"A mathematical model of exploitative and interference competitions in stage-structured populations","authors":"Kien Trung Phan, Anh Duc Nguyen, Thuy Phuong Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129466","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129466","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In population ecology, competition interactions between species are pivotal in shaping species growth and ecosystem stability. A prominent example is the phenomenon where one species preys on the offspring of another. This paper introduces and analyzes a novel stage-structured competition model to explore this ecological dynamic. Focusing on juvenile and adult life stages, we integrate two competition forms: exploitative (through shared resource limitation) and interference (where adults consume rival juveniles). While exploitative and interference competition are well-studied individually, their interplay in stage-structured populations remains underexplored. Our analysis reveals critical thresholds for resource abundance that determine whether species coexist, one dominates, or both perish. Remarkably, when one species inherently excels at resource exploitation, it dominates regardless of the interference rate on its rival's juveniles. Furthermore, increasing resource productivity can induce Hopf bifurcations, leading to cyclic population dynamics—a finding with implications for managing ecosystems under environmental change. Numerical simulations are given to illustrate and validate our theoretical findings. These results advance our understanding of how life-stage-specific interactions mediate coexistence and resilience in ecological communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"501 ","pages":"Article 129466"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sampled-data-based stability and stabilization of Lurie systems","authors":"Wei Wang, Jin-Ming Liang, Hong-Bing Zeng","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129455","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129455","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper discusses the sampled-data control problem of Lurie systems. First, a sufficient condition is presented to ensure system stability with a predefined controller gain. This condition is then extended to design a state-feedback controller (SFC) that stabilizes the systems. Additionally, the paper introduces a cone complementary linearization iteration (CCLI) algorithm with an enhanced iteration condition to obtain the controller gain. Numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed method surpasses existing methods in the literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"501 ","pages":"Article 129455"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143815357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mostafa Abbaszadeh , Mahmoud A. Zaky , Mehdi Dehghan
{"title":"Virtual element approximation and BDF2 time-discrete scheme for a partial integro-differential equation with a singular Abel's kernel","authors":"Mostafa Abbaszadeh , Mahmoud A. Zaky , Mehdi Dehghan","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129451","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129451","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This work focuses on developing a virtual element framework for analyzing nonlinear partial integro-differential equations with singular Abel-type kernels. To address the singularity in the integral term, we propose two strategies: one based on linear interpolation over a uniform temporal mesh and another employing a graded mesh. Notably, while the uniform mesh fails to retain second-order temporal accuracy, the graded mesh successfully achieves it. For spatial discretization, we adopt the virtual element method and derive rigorous error estimates for the semi-discrete scheme. Nonlinear terms are approximated via a second-order temporal discretization. Following this, we establish a fully-discrete scheme. We rigorously establish the unconditional stability and convergence rates of the proposed method in separate theorems. Finally, we validate the theoretical results through numerical experiments on various domains.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"501 ","pages":"Article 129451"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143799285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Event-based privacy-consensus control for multiagent systems: An enhanced framework for fault-tolerance and protection against eavesdropping","authors":"Xiaoyan Hu , Dan Ye","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129446","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129446","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the consensus problem of privacy protection for multi-agent systems (MASs) under conditions of compound faults. We develop a fault-tolerant observer that utilizes intermediate variables to estimate both the system state and compound faults, specifically addressing sensor and actuator faults in the physical layer of the system. To safeguard the privacy of communication data at the network layer, a dual protection encoding and decoding strategy is proposed. Furthermore, an intermittent event-triggered mechanism (ETM) is introduced to mitigate the computational and communication burdens imposed by the encoding algorithms. Discrete-time combination measurement values are employed to enhance the generalizability of the ETM. Within the framework of encryption and decryption, fault-tolerant consensus control algorithm is designed to counter two types of eavesdroppers, thereby achieving privacy consensus for MASs while addressing challenges associated with physical layer faults. In the end, a simulation of an island microgrid (MG) with five distributed generators (DGs) is developed to confirm the efficacy of the suggested approach.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"500 ","pages":"Article 129446"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143800585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}