Dining Philosophers Problem_Matlab Based Approach

    The Dining Philosophers problem is a classical problem, originally formulated by E.W. Dijkstra, to demonstrate classical problems in computer science and the programming of concurrent or parallel processes. Four philosophers are seated at a table, spending their lives in an infinite cycle of thinking and eating. A philosopher must pick up both forks before he can eat. You can think of the philosophers as concurrent processes and the forks as shared resources. The problem is to determine the policy or algorithm so that each philosopher gets to eat and does not starve. For example, one algorithm is for each philosopher to pick up first the fork to his right, then the fork to his left, before he eats. That this will eventually lead to a deadlock situation where all of the philosophers are holding one fork, waiting for each other to put down their forks.