This variable is represented randomly with equal probability of having it 0 or 1. Opinion of peers. The average of the friend's opinions. The number of friends who have actually seen the movie. It takes two bits for the classifier rule to represent the percentage of friends who have seen the movie.
Time is discrete and indexed as t.
At any given instant in time, the agent's actions are collected and added to the statistics of opinions. As time progresses, the agents are receiving a richer state of the environment as more and more friends have seen it. The general opinion of peers is evaluated from the subtraction of the number of friends who liked it and the ones who disliked it. If this is a positive number, the opinion of peers is favorable. Agents who have seen the movie from here on will be called viewers .