My Research

Currently, I am working on topics of Voting theory advised by Dr Bart de Keijzer and Dr Maria Polukarov, and Public Goods Game with Dr Hsuan-Wei Lee.

Voting Theory

• Colin Cleveland, Bart de Keijzer, Maria Polukarov, The Complexity of Strategic Behavior in Primary Elections (Accepted). In AAMAS 2026: The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. arXiv
• Colin Cleveland*, Bart de Keijzer*, Maria Polukarov, Optimal Candidate Positioning in Multi-Issue Elections (Accepted/In press). In ECAI 2025: The 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 25-30 October 2025, Bologna, Italy – Including 14th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2025) IOS Press. arXiv

* : Equal Contribution

Manuscript Under Review (Available Upon Request)

• Prospect-Theoretic Voting: Strategic Implications and Computational Limits Colin Cleveland, Bart De Keijzer, Maria Polukarov

Evolutionary Game Theory

• Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki, Context-sensitive norm enforcement reduces sanctioning costs in spatial public goods games. In Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 508, p. 129 626, 2026 doi.org link

• Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki, Supporting punishment via taxation in a structured population. In Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 178, p. 114 385, 2024 doi.org link

• Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki, Suppressing defection by increasing temptation: The impact of smart cooperators on a social dilemma situation. In Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 479, p. 128 864, 202 doi.org link

• Colin Cleveland, Chin-Yen Lee, Shen-Fu Tsai, Wei-Hsuan Yu, Hsuan-Wei Lee, Graphlet and Orbit Computation on Heterogeneous Graphs arxiv link

• Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki, Group-size dependent synergy in heterogeneous populations. In Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 167, p. 113 055, 2023 doi.org link

• Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki, Restoring spatial cooperation with myopic agents in a three-strategy social dilemma. In Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 458, p. 128 226, 2023 doi.org link

• Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki, When costly migration helps to improve cooperation. In Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 32, no. 9, p. 093 103, Sep. 2022. doi.org link

• Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki, Mercenary punishment in structured populations. In Applied Mathematics and Computation Volume 417, 15 March 2022, 126797 doi.org link

• Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki, Small fraction of selective cooperators can elevate general wellbeing significantly. In Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications Volume 582, 15 November 2021, 126222 doi.org link