Cooperation in the Minority Game with local information

The Minority Game was introduced to show basic properties of competitive sy stems with limited common information resources. M. Paczuski and K. E. Bass ler introduced a Minority Game with personal limited information resources, where each agent knows the past actions of randomly chosen neighbours [M. Paczuski, K.E. Bassler, Self-organized Networks of Competing Boolean Agents (1999)]. They asked whether such a system can show cooperation. In this pa per we show that agents who are placed in a circle are able to cooperate du e to self-organization. Furthermore, we introduce a new evolution method to optimize the cooperation among the agents. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.