Studies on variations on the minority game.

Lim Sze Wah.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-73).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 2 --- A brief review on the basic minority game --- p.6Chapter 2.1 --- Model --- p.7Chapter 2.2 --- Results --- p.9Chapter 2.3 --- Discussion --- p.11Chapter 2.3.1 --- Bit-string Statistics and Market Efficiency --- p.11Chapter 2.3.2 --- Crowds and Anticrowds Effect --- p.14Chapter 2.3.3 --- Hamming Distance and Reduced Strategies Space --- p.15Chapter 3 --- A brief review on existing variations on the minority game --- p.17Chapter 3.1 --- Darwinism process and MG --- p.17Chapter 3.2 --- Evolutionary MG (EMG) --- p.17Chapter 3.3 --- Modified EMG (MEMG) --- p.18Chapter 3.4 --- MG with arbitrary cutoff --- p.18Chapter 3.5 --- Thermal MG (TMG) --- p.19Chapter 3.6 --- Three-Sided MG --- p.19Chapter 3.7 --- MG with variable payoffs --- p.19Chapter 4 --- Minority game with varying number of participants --- p.21Chapter 4.1 --- The modified MG --- p.22Chapter 4.1.1 --- Model --- p.22Chapter 4.1.2 --- Results --- p.23Chapter 4.2 --- Mixed-population --- p.33Chapter 4.2.1 --- Model --- p.33Chapter 4.2.2 --- Results --- p.33Chapter 4.2.3 --- Discussions --- p.37Chapter 5 --- Minority game considering recent performance of strategies --- p.39Chapter 5.1 --- The modified MG --- p.40Chapter 5.1.1 --- Model --- p.40Chapter 5.1.2 --- Results --- p.40Chapter 5.2 --- Mixed-population --- p.46Chapter 5.2.1 --- Model --- p.46Chapter 5.2.2 --- Results --- p.47Chapter 5.2.3 --- Discussions --- p.50Chapter 6 --- Minority game combining both modifications --- p.52Chapter 6.1 --- Model --- p.52Chapter 6.2 --- Results --- p.53Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.68Bibliography --- p.7