Mexican Standoffs
A Mexican Standoff is a truel between three parties.
An interesting feature here is that the first person who shoots has a tactical disadvantage: he could be shot by the third person while occupied in shooting the second. Hence, no one has incentives to shoot first and everyone waits for someone else to begin.
Which of the following describes a similar concept in parallel computing?
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1 solution
Byzantine Generals is a problem in parallel computing in which one designs protocols to communicate information between two agents through an unreliable channel.
Dining Philosophers is a problem where a number of agents manage shared resources in a nice way so the interests of no agent are hurt.
Mutual Exclusion is a problem where we want agents to access a shared resource one at a time.
Deadlock is a situation where each agent perpetually waits for the other agent to do something resulting in nobody proceeding at all. The situation in hand is like that. Since no one wants to shoot first, they all wait for the second person to shoot, and keep waiting forever as a result.