Influence of Opinion Leadership and Communication in a Minority Game: an Agent Based Simulation

In the present work we built a simulation in which a some reactive agents at each step take a binary; the agents in the minority win and get a payoff. The Minority Gamem in its original formulation, states that there is no communication among the agents involved in the simulation; the idea in this paper is to introduce in the model a sort of a social network, in order to see how the links among certain agents can change the results of the simulation. We also introduced some special agents, that we defined “opinion leaders”, giving the role they have in the simulation. We investigate on how the introduction of these particular agents change the behaviour of the aggregate system.

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