Deceptive strategies for the evolutionary minority game

Abstract

The evolutionary minority game is extensively used to study adaptive behavior in a population of interacting agents. In time the agents self-organize despite the fact agents act independently in choosing how to play the game and do not know the play of any other agent. In this paper we study agents who collude with each other to play the same strategy. However, nothing prevents agents from being deceptive and playing a different strategy instead. It is shown that deceptive strategies can be profitable if the number of deceptive agents is small enough.