A gentle introduction to the minimal Naming Game

@article{Baronchelli2017AGI,
  title={A gentle introduction to the minimal Naming Game},
  author={Andrea Baronchelli},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2017},
  volume={abs/1701.07419}
}
Social conventions govern countless behaviors all of us engage in every day, from how we greet each other to the languages we speak. But how can shared conventions emerge spontaneously in the absence of a central coordinating authority? The Naming Game model shows that networks of locally interacting individuals can spontaneously self-organize to produce global coordination. Here, we provide a gentle introduction to the main features of the model, from the dynamics observed in homogeneously… 
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