title: Self-organized networks of competing boolean agents
abstract: A model of Boolean agents competing in a market is presented where each agent bases his action on information obtained from a small group of other agents. The agents play a competitive game that rewards those in the minority. After a long time interval, the poorest player's strategy is changed randomly, and the process is repeated. Eventually the network evolves to a stationary but intermittent state where random mutation of the worst strategy can change the behavior of the entire network, often causing a switch in the dynamics between attractors of vastly different lengths.
authors.affiliation: Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark and NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark and Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5506, USA.
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paczuski
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Bassler
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Corral