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Task Allocation for Spatially and Temporally Distributed Tasks

2013
In multi robot task allocation, a set of tasks has to be allocated to a group of robots while optimizing some measure (for example, fuel or time). In order to find the optimal allocation, an exponential number of possibilities must be explored. In this work, we extend the Consensus Based Bundle Algorithm, to improve its support for tasks with time ...
Julio Godoy, Maria L. Gini
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Fair task allocation problem

Annals of Operations Research, 2018
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Christian Billing, Florian Jaehn, Thomas Wensing   +2 more
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Task allocation for reconfigurable teams

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2015
Self-reconfigurable robots are systems built from a collection of modules that have the ability to form themselves into many different topologies. This includes forming robots of different shapes, but also includes dividing and merging to form different numbers of physically independent robots during the course of the mission.
Zack Butler 0001, Jacob Hays
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Preferences of agents in decentralized task allocation [PDF]

AI Communications, 2009
The ability to express preferences for specific tasks in multi-agent auctions is an important element for potential users who are considering to use such auctioning systems. This paper presents an approach to make such preferences explicit and to use these preferences in bids for reverse combinatorial auctions.
Mark Hoogendoorn, Maria L. Gini
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Task allocation in the star graph

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1994
The star graph has been known as an attractive candidate for interconnecting a large number of processors. The hierarchy of the star graph allows the assignment of its special subgraphs (substars), which have the same topological features as the original graph, to a sequence of incoming tasks.
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Task Allocation by Parallel Evolutionary Computing

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1997
In this paper we will investigate the applicability of parallel evolutionary algorithms to the task allocation problem?a long standing problem in parallel computing. Three different evolutionary optimization strategies, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and steepest descent, are formulated in a parallel generic framework. In order to enhance the
Schoneveld, A., de Ronde, J.F., Sloot, P.M.A.   +2 more
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Integration of dependability in a task allocation problem

IMTC/2002. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37276), 2003
The tasks allocation on various components or processing units composing an automation system needs a design-aided methodology in order to both obtain relevant architecture of this automation system and a sufficiently efficient tasks allocation.
Bicking, Frédérique, Conrard, Blaise, Thiriet, Jean-Marc   +2 more
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Task Allocation in a Multi-Server System

Journal of Scheduling, 2003
We consider a slotted queueing system with C servers (processors) that can handle tasks (jobs). Tasks arrive in batches of random size at the start of every slot. Any task can be executed by any server in one slot with success probability α. If a task execution fails, then the task must be handled in some later time slot until it has been completed ...
Sem C. Borst, Onno J. Boxma, Jan Friso Groote, Sjouke Mauw   +3 more
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Analytic Cognitive Task Allocation: a decision model for cognitive task allocation

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 2007
This paper introduces Analytic Cognitive Task Allocation (Analytic CTA) as a decision model for cognitive task allocation. Analytic CTA can support system designers systematically analyse alternative allocation choices, evaluate them through criterion-based quantitative judgements and integrate partial judgements towards a final allocation decision ...
S. Papantonopoulos, G. Salvendy
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Efficiency and Task Allocation in Prey Retrieval

2004
Prey retrieval, also known as foraging, is a widely used test application in collective robotics. The task consists in searching for objects spread in the environment and in bringing them to a specific place called nest. Scientific issues usually concern efficient exploration, mapping, communication among agents, task coordination and allocation, and ...
Labella, Thomas Halva, Dorigo, Marco, Deneubourg, Jean-Louis   +2 more
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