Crab effect, advantage law, silver medal and other applications of the minority game
J.R.L. de Almeida, J.Menche

TL;DR
This paper introduces variations of the minority game to model social behaviors, analyzing the impact of antisocial strategies like advantage law and crab effect on collective organization, and explores reward mechanisms for second-place winners.
Contribution
It presents new versions of the minority game incorporating antisocial behaviors and reward schemes, providing a measurable framework for their effects on social dynamics.
Findings
Antisocial strategies deteriorate collective organization.
Advantage law and crab effect reduce system efficiency.
Rewarding second place influences agent behavior and system performance.
Abstract
In this work we present a pedagogical introduction to the minority game and various new versions of it with interesting properties, focusing in its applications in socialphysics. For instance, some systems display a kind of social behavior that seems to play an important role in the advancement and survival of an organized society [see, for instance, J. B. Silk et al., Science 302, 1231 (2003)]. On the other hand, devious behavior may degrade a organized society specially when anti-social individual patterns becomes common to many members of a collectivity. In a, perhaps, somewhat far fetched application of a model for interacting agents, the well known minority game, applicable in many contexts, we have studied by computer simulation the effect of having a fraction of the members of a collectivity endowed with spurious strategies. In particular the so called advantage law, where there…
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Taxonomy
TopicsGame Theory and Applications · Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
