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