Tuesday 24 November 2009 at 15:00

Miroslav Pištěk
(Institute of ExperimentalTheoretical Physics, Charles University, Prague)

Statistical Physics of Frustrated Evolutionary Games

Abstract:
In last two decades, the effort devoted to interdisciplinary research of bounded sources allocation is growing, examining real phenomena as stock markets or traffic jams. The Minority game is a multiple-agent model of inevitable frustration arising in such situations. It is analytically tractable using the Replica method originated in statistical physics of spin glasses. We generalized the Minority game introducing heterogenous agents. This heterogeneity causes a considerable decrease of an average agent's frustration. For many configurations, we achieve even a positive-sum game, which is not possible in the original game variant. This result is in accordance with real stock market data.


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