http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/04/10#minority-game <P>This is a placeholder, accumulating references for a project I'm pondering. In many ways, I think the popularity of the minority game among physicists has been, at best, a distraction, but since it <em>is</em> popular... <P>See also: <a href="learning-games.html">Learning in Games</a>; <a href="multi-agent-systems.html">Multi-Agent Systems</a> <ul>See (deliberately omitting really stupid papers): <li><a href="http://www.unifr.ch/econophysics/minority/">The Minority Game's Web Page</a> [The prime place for all things MG-related, maintained by Damien Challet] <li>W. Brian Arthur, <cite>Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy</cite> [Collection of Arthur's papers, including those on the El Farol bar problem, of which the minorty game is itself a caricature. One of those papers is <a href="http://www.santafe.edu/arthur/Papers/El_Farol.html">online</a>. <a href="http://www.elfarolsf.com/">El Farol</a> itself is a delightful place of which I have many fond memories.] <li>Andrea Cavagna, "Irrelevance of Memory in the Minority Game", <cite>Physical Review E</cite> <strong>59</strong> (1999): 3783--3786 <li>Damien Challet and Matteo Marsili, "Relevance of Memory in Minority Games", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0004196">cond-mat/0004196</a> <li>Damien Challet and Yi-Cheng Zhang, "Emergence of Cooperation and Organization in an Evolutionary Game", <cite>Physica A</cite> <strong>246</strong> (1997): 407--418 = <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9708006">cond-mat/9708006</a> [The original paper on the minority game] <li>Paul Jefferies, M. L. Hart and Neil F. Johnson, "Deterministic Dynamics in the Minority Game", <cite>Physical Review E</cite> <strong>65</strong> (2002): 016105 = <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0103259">cond-mat/0103259</a> [Johnson's group has many other decent papers] <li>H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven A. Brueckener, John Sauter and Robert Savit, "Effort Profiles in Multi-Agent Resource Allocation" [<a href="http://www.erim.org/~vparunak/AAMAS02Effort.pdf">PDF</a>] <li>Robert Savit, Sven A. Brueckner, H. Van Dyke Parunak and John Sauter, "Phase Structure of Resource Allocation Games", <cite>Physics Letters A</cite> <strong>311</strong> (2003): 359--364 = <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0302053">nlin.AO/0302053</a> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Damien Challet, Matteo Marsili and Yi-Cheng Zhang, <cite>Minority Games</cite> [A 100-page review of the field, plus reprints of "essential" papers] <li>H. F. Chau, V. H. Chan, F. K. Chow, "Playing The Hypothesis Testing Minority Game In The Maximal Reduced Strategy Space", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3068">arxiv:0711.3068</a> <li>A. C. C. Coolen, <cite>The Mathematical Theory Of Minority Games: Statistical Mechanics Of Interacting Agents</cite> <li>Neil F. Johnson, Sehyo C. Choe, Sean Gourley, Timothy Jarrett, Pak Ming Hui, "Theory of Collective Dynamics in Multi-Agent Complex Systems", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0403158">cond-mat/0403158</a> <li>Neil F. Johnson, Paul Jefferies and Pak Ming Hui, <cite>Financial Market Complexity</cite> <li>Willemien Kets, "The minority game: An economics perspective", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.4432">arxiv:0706.4432</a> <li>Willemien Kets, Mark Voorneveld, "Congestion, equilibrium and learning: The minority game", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3542">arxiv:0708.3542</a> ["different learning processes provide considerably different predictions": completely unsurprising, I must say.] <li>Susanne Moelbert and Paolo De Los Rios, "The Local Minority Game," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0109080">cond-mat/0109080</a> <li>N. Shayeghi and A. C. C. Coolen, "Generating functional analysis of batch minority games with arbitrary strategy numbers", <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606448">cond-mat/0606448</a> </ul> <ul>To get off my butt and write: <li>"Alternative Models of Cognition in the Minority Game" </ul>