The Downside of Heterogeneity: How Established Relations Counteract Systemic Adaptivity in Tasks Assignments

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 reassignment...

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Main Authors: Giona Casiraghi, Christian Zingg, Frank Schweitzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-12-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/12/1677