Name
Title | ||
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The Downside of Heterogeneity: How Established Relations Counteract Systemic Adaptivity in Tasks Assignments |
Abstract | ||
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We study the lock-in effect in a network of task assignments. Agents have a heterogeneous fitness for solving tasks and can redistribute unfinished tasks to other agents. They learn over time to whom to reassign tasks and preferably choose agents with higher fitness. A lock-in occurs if reassignments can no longer adapt. Agents overwhelmed with tasks then fail, leading to failure cascades. We find that the probability for lock-ins and systemic failures increase with the heterogeneity in fitness values. To study this dependence, we use the Shannon entropy of the network of task assignments. A detailed discussion links our findings to the problem of resilience and observations in social systems. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2021 | 10.3390/e23121677 | ENTROPY |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
resilience, systemic risk, failure cascades, entropy, adaptivity | Journal | 23 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
12 | 1099-4300 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giona Casiraghi | 1 | 0 | 1.01 |
| Christian Zingg | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Frank Schweitzer | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |