2015/05/11 by James Burridge, Yu Gao, Burridge, James +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #nlin.AO #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1505.02592
arxiv created 2015/05/11 · arxiv updated 2015/05/12
We present a simple game model where agents with different memory lengths compete for finite resources. We show by simulation and analytically that an instability exists at a critical memory length, and as a result, different memory lengths can compete and co-exist in a dynamical equilibrium. Our analytical formulation makes a connection to statistical urn models, and we show that temperature is mirrored by the agent's memory. Our analysis is easily generalisable to many other game models with implications that we briefly discuss.