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The Potluck Problem

Computer Science and Game Theory 2022-01-11 v2 Multiagent Systems

Abstract

This paper proposes the Potluck Problem as a model for the behavior of independent producers and consumers under standard economic assumptions, as a problem of resource allocation in a multi-agent system in which there is no explicit communication among the agents.

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@article{arxiv.0809.2136,
  title  = {The Potluck Problem},
  author = {Prabodh K. Enumula and Shrisha Rao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.2136},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

9 pages. Economics Letters, to appear

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