Evolutionary Games on Complex Networks

Classical game theory has become a key paradigm for explaining cooperation-competition phenomena in various scientific disciplines ranging from biology and ecology to anthropology, psychology, philosophy, politics, and economics. In this article, we briefly review its successful history of being one of the mainstream theories in interdisciplinary science and introduce a natural extension of the concepts to evolutionary game theory on complex networks. The effects of the topological features of the underlying networks and of the possible complicated behaviors on other complex networks are mainly discussed.