Shedding Light on El Farol
Posted: 6 Dec 2004
Abstract
We mathematize El Farol bar problem and transform it into a workable model. In general, the average convergence to optimality at the collective level is trivial and does not even require any intelligence on the side of agents. Secondly, specializing to a particular ensemble of continuous strategies yields a model similar to the Minority Game. Statistical physics of disordered systems allows us to derive a complete understanding of the complex behavior of this model, on the basis of its phase diagram.
Keywords: El Farol, minority game, exact solution
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Challet, Damien and Marsili, Matteo and Ottino, Gabriele, Shedding Light on El Farol. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=626722
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