Dining Philosopher
A Philosopher is a "lover of wisdom".
Every Person / Player / Actor / Peer / User must share.
In computer science, the dining philosophers problem is an illustrative example of a common computing problem in concurrency. It is a classic multi-process synchronization problem.
In 1965, Edsger Dijkstra set an examination question on a synchronization problem where five computers competed for access to five shared tape drive peripherals. Soon afterwards the problem was retold by Tony Hoare as the dining philosophers problem.
This is a theoretical explanation of deadlock and resource starvation by assuming that each philosopher takes a different fork as a first priority and then looks for another. -- http://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem