Mechanization, Task Assignment, and Inequality

Hybrid Meta-heuristic Algorithm for Task Assignment Problem

Task assignment problem (TAP) involves assigning a number of tasks to a number of processors in distributed computing systems and its objective is to minimize the sum of the total execution and communication costs, subject to all of the resource constraints. TAP is a combinatorial optimization problem and NP-complete. This paper proposes a hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm for solving TAP in a ...

Task Assignment with Unknown Duration

Task Assignment and Scheduling under Memory Constraints

Many DSP and image processing embedded systems have hard memory constraints which makes it difficult to find a good task assignment and scheduling which fulfill these constraints. This paper presents a new heuristic developed for task assignment and scheduling for such systems. These systems have also a large number of constraints of different nature, such as cost, execution time, memory capaci...

Development, social norms, and assignment to task.

Economic development involves a structural transformation in the way people are allocated to tasks. There is a shift from self-provision to market exchange, facilitating specialization. There is also a shift from self-employment to wage employment in large firms and organizations, driven by innovation and increasing returns to scale. Changes in allocation mechanisms require changes in norms and...

Task assignment with controlled and autonomous agents

We analyse assignment problems in which not every agent is controlled by the central planner. The autonomous agents search for vacant tasks guided by their own preference orders over available tasks. The goal of the central planner is to maximise the total value of the assignment, taking into account the behaviour of the uncontrolled agents. Such optimisation problems arise in numerous real-wor...