The Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem and resource utilization

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2420-2426

  Chakrabarti, Anindya Sundar ^a   Chakrabarti, Bikas K ^a,b   Chatterjee, Arnab ^c   Mitra, Manipushpak ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamics of choice problems; Minority games; Resource utilization

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS;

CHOICE PROBLEMS; MINORITY GAME; MYOPIC STRATEGIES; REPEATED GAMES; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SOCIAL OPTIMUMS; STEADY-STATE BEHAVIORS; UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES;

SALES;

EID: 63749129045     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.02.039     Document Type: Article

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