This paper presents a task allocation scheme via selforganizing swarm coalitions for distributed mobile sensor network coverage. Our approach uses the concepts of ant behavior to self-regulate the regional distributions of sensors in proportion to that of the moving targets to be tracked in a non-stationary environment. As a result, the adverse effects of task interference between robots are mi...

Task migration is an eeective strategy to achieve load balancing and high resource utilization in a meta-computing environment. In this paper, we argue that traditional task migration methods take into account only the computation, and neglect any necessary data migration. Accordingly, we introduce a new deenition of a task, propose a novel dynamic task migration scheme, and evaluate this schem...

Collaborative industrial robotic arms (cobots) are integrated assembly systems relieving their human coworkers from monotonous tasks and achieving productivity gains. The question of task allocation arises in the organization these human–robot interactions. State art shows static, compensatory approaches current flexible, adaptive sharing (ATS) factors research. latter should exploit economic e...

Hard real-time (HRT) video systems require admission control decisions that rely on two factors. Firstly, schedulability analysis of the datadependent, communicating tasks within the application need to be carried out in order to guarantee timing and predictability. Secondly, the allocation of the tasks to multi-core processing elements would generate different results in the schedulability ana...

This paper presents a method of exploiting the functional parallelism present within a class of well-defined deterministic software systems to achieve real-time execution on a highlyconstrained MIMD message-passing architectural model. The methodology is targeted to software systems that do not respond well to conventional data parallel techniques because of the irregular flow of data resulting...

The problem of allocating tasks to workers is of long standing fundamental importance. Examples of this include the classical problem of assigning computing tasks to nodes in a distributed computing environment, as well as the more recent problem of crowdsourcing where a broad array of tasks are slated to be completed by human workers. Extensive research into this problem generally addresses im...