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Coordinating "7 Billion Humans" is hard

Computational Complexity 2024-07-11 v1

Abstract

In the video game "7 Billion Humans", the player is requested to direct a group of workers to various destinations by writing a program that is executed simultaneously on each worker. While the game is quite rich and, indeed, it is considered one of the best games for beginners to learn the basics of programming, we show that even extremely simple versions are already NP-Hard or PSPACE-Hard.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2407.07246,
  title  = {Coordinating "7 Billion Humans" is hard},
  author = {Alessandro Panconesi and Pietro Maria Posta and Mirko Giacchini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.07246},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Preliminary version appeared at FUN (2024)

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