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ArticleFrontiers in big data2025

An epidemiological extension of the El Farol Bar problem.

Francesco Bertolotti, Niccolò Kadera, Luca Pasquino, Luca Mari

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Article in Frontiers in big data, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Francesco BertolottiSchool of Industrial Engineering, LIUC - Università Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy.
Niccolò KaderaSchool of Industrial Engineering, LIUC - Università Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy.
Luca PasquinoSchool of Industrial Engineering, LIUC - Università Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy.
Luca MariSchool of Industrial Engineering, LIUC - Università Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents an epidemiological extension of the El Farol Bar problem, where both a social and an epidemiological dimension are present. In the model, individual agents making binary decisions-to visit a bar or stay home-amidst a non-fatal epidemic. The extension of the classic social dilemma is implemented as an agent-based model, and it is later explored by sampling the parameter space and observing the resulting behavior. The results of this analysis suggest that the infection could be contained by increasing the information available in the underlying social system and adjusting its structure.

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agent-based modelingcomputational social scienceEl Farol Bar problemepidemiological modelingsimulationsocial dilemma

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PMID40078336
PMCPMC11897257

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