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Crowd-anticrowd theory of the Minority Game

Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

Abstract

The Minority Game is a simple yet highly non-trivial agent-based model for a complex adaptive system. Despite its importance, a quantitative explanation of the game's fluctuations which applies over the entire parameter range of interest has so far been lacking. We provide such a quantitative description based on the interplay between crowds of like-minded agents and their anti-correlated partners (anticrowds).

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0005152,
  title  = {Crowd-anticrowd theory of the Minority Game},
  author = {M. Hart and P. Jefferies and N. F. Johnson and P. M. Hui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0005152},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Shortened version of cond-mat/0003486. Submitted for publication