Introducing the Blind Hunger Dilemma: Agents’ Properties and Performance

First International Conference on Multiagent Systems

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First International Conference on Multiagent Systems

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This paper introduces the Blind Hunger Dilemma as a cardinM problem in multi-agent domains. This problem investigates the effect of agents' characteristics on the mean performance of a total system when the agents are involved in exclusive use of shared resources. In this paper, we model aa agent that is sensitive to forces originating both from an energy supply base and adjacent agents. We characterize the agents’ properties with two parameters and investigate the relationship between these two parameters and performance measures such as the rate of energy replenishment.