This case introduces students to the design of artificial agents and evolutionary game tournaments minority W. Brian Arthur. After Arthur, the game story is motivated by El Farol, a popular music bar in Santa Fe, CA. The bar usually attract large crowds with his programming Irish music on Thursday evenings. Place only offer a limited amount of space, which detracts from the enjoyment of music programs when the audience grew bar capacity. Moderately attended events were highly successful with the majority of customers. Crowed bar, however, will decrease the pleasure to the point where most of the patrons would prefer not to take part in the event. El Farol is not so pre-sale tickets, patrons had no information on attendance night, when they came to the restaurant. Although there was no information about participating in the upcoming events, patrons can learn the level of attendance in previous weeks by word of mouth, and, over time, form expectations of future traffic based on their knowledge of the past attendance figures. "Hide
by Matthias Hild Source: Darden School of Business 4 pages. Publication Date: September 28, 2004. Prod. #: UV3877-PDF-ENG
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