ECONIS Select – The "El Farol Bar problem"

See also: "Two-person Zero-sum games: Colonel Blotto"

03/2011

This is a selection of recent articles, working papers and books on the subject, chosen by our staff and available through our document delivery services.

Search our free online catalogue or try our portal EconBiz.

Web-Links:

• "The El Farol Bar Problem Revisited: Reinforcement Learning in a Potential Game",
  Duncan Whitehead, University of Edinburgh, 17.09.2008 (08.03.2011)
• "El Farol Bar problem using learning automata",
  Harald Unander/Torbjørn Vaaje, 2006 (08.03.2011)
• "The El Farol Bar Problem for next generation systems",
  Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Dissertation, August 2006, (08.03.2011)
• "The El Farol Bar Problem on Complex Networks",
  ppt Lecture by Maziar Nekovee, 04.07.2006, Oxford (08.03.2011)
• Facebook page "El Farol Bar Problem"
  (08.03.2011)

Literature selected from our database ECONIS:

• Article: Inductive reasoning and bounded rationality / by W. Brian Arthur
  In: The American economic review. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Assoc., ISSN 0002-8282, ZDB-ID 203590x. - 84 (1994),2, S. 406-411
  Keywords: Spieltheorie / |stw| Entscheidung / |stw| Beschränkte Rationalität / |stw| Theorie
• Title: El Farol revisited: a note on emergence, game theory and society / by Martin Shubik
  Published: New Haven, Conn.: Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale Univ., 2009
  Series: Cowles Foundation discussion paper; 1733
  Link: http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/cd/d17a/ d1733.pdf
• Article: The interplay between analytics and computation in the study of congestion externalities: the case of the El Farol problem / Eduardo Zambrano
  In: Journal of public economic theory. - Malden, Mass. [u.a.]: Blackwell, ISSN 1097-3923, ZDB-ID 14684342. - Bd. 6.2004, 2, S. 375-395
  Keywords: Bottleneck / |stw| Externer Effekt / |stw| Beschränkte Rationalität / |stw| Spieltheorie / |stw| Theorie
• Article: Reinforcement learning in the El Farol model / Reiner Franke
  In: Journal of economic behavior & organization. - Amsterdam [u.a.]: Elsevier, ISSN 0167-2681, ZDB-ID 8643210. - Bd. 51.2003, 3, S. 367-388
  Keywords: Lernprozess / |stw| Beschränkte Rationalität / |stw| Markovscher Prozess / |stw| Nash-Gleichgewicht
• Title: Modelling adaptive complex behaviour with an application to the stock market dynamics: (El Farol problem revisited) / F. M. Aparicio Acosta
  Published: Getafe: Dep. de Estadística y Econometría, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, 1998
  Series: Working papers / Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; 98,87: Statistics and econometrics series; 98,41
  Keywords: Entscheidung / |stw| Zeitreihenanalyse / |stw| Beschränkte Rationalität / |stw| Theorie / |stw| Nichtlineares Verfahren
  Signatory: W 920 (98.41)
• Title: Game theory evolving: a problem-centered introduction to modeling strategic interaction / Herbert Gintis
  Published: Princeton, NJ [u.a.]: Princeton Univ. Press, 2009
  Keywords: Spieltheorie / Theorie
  Links:
  Table of contents
  Signatory: C 258173