Econophysics of the Kolkata Restaurant Problem and Related Games Classical and Quantum Strategies for Multi-agent, Multi-choice Repetitive Games /

• Main Authors: Chakrabarti, Bikas K. (Author), Chatterjee, Arnab (Author), Ghosh, Asim (Author), Mukherjee, Sudip (Author), Tamir, Boaz (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: New Economic Windows,
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Economic theory.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to multi-agent, multi-choice repetitive games, such as the Kolkata Restaurant Problem and the Minority Game. It explains how the tangible formulations of these games, using stochastic strategies developed by statistical physicists employing bot...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem
• Phase transition in the Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem
• Zipf’s law from Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem
• Minority Game and Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem
• From classical games, the Kokata Paise Restaurant game, to Quantum Games
• Some recent developments: A brief discussion.