@inproceedings{420fa0388d2a4de085e446bf9c56de7f,
title = "Synthetic Pheromones for Avoiding Social Dilemmas",
abstract = "Braess' Paradox is a social dilemma that occurs when adding more of a limited resource to a system decreases the performance of the system rather than increases it as expected. To avoid this paradox, we propose a biologically inspired system of agents that use ant-like pheromones. Using only locally available information in the form of synthetic pheromones, the agents in our system avoid Braess' paradox and perform well compared with agents that don't use pheromones, especially when they weigh the pheromone information more heavily than the path cost to make routing decisions.",
author = "Thomas, {Matthew H.} and Oh, {Jae C.}",
year = "2002",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "0970789017",
series = "Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Information Sciences",
pages = "655--658",
editor = "J.H. Caulfield and S.H. Chen and H.D. Cheng and R. Duro and J.H. Caufield and S.H. Chen and H.D. Cheng and R. Duro and V. Honavar",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, JCIS 2002",
note = "Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, JCIS 2002 ; Conference date: 08-03-2002 Through 13-03-2002",
}