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Alina Tausch, Annette Kluge, Lars Adolph
Task allocation is immensely important when it comes to designing human-robot interaction (HRI), but although it is the shaping part of the interaction, it is merely regarded as a process with its own effects on human thinking and behavior. This study aims at linking research from different fields like psychological…
José Cano, David R. White, Alejandro Bordallo, Ciaran McCreesh + 3 more
'Anna Lito Michala' 'Jeremy Singer' 'Vijay Nagarajan'] We consider the problem of assigning software processes (or tasks) to hardware processors in distributed robotics environments. We introduce the notion of a task variant, which supports the adaptation of software to specific hardware configurations. Task variants…
Rui Chen, Bernd Meyer, Julian García
Social insect colonies are capable of allocating their workforce in a decentralised fashion; addressing a variety of tasks and responding effectively to changes in the environment. This process is fundamental to their ecological success, but the mechanisms behind it remain poorly understood. While most models focus on…
Xiaocan Wu, Yu-E Sun, He Huang, Yang Du + 1 more
Crowdsensing has emerged as an efficient and inexpensive way to perform specialized tasks by leveraging external crowds. In some crowdsensing systems, different tasks may have different requirements, and there may be precedence constraints among them, such as the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) crowdsensing systems.…
Nidhika Chauhan, Navneet Kaur, Kamaljit Singh Saini, Sahil Verma + 4 more
'Abdulatif Alabdulatif' 'Ruba Abu Khurma' 'M. G. Arenas' 'Pedro Á. Castillo'] Abstract: As cloud computing usage grows, cloud data centers play an increasingly important role. To maximize resource utilization, ensure service quality, and enhance system performance, it is crucial to allocate tasks and manage performance…
Anshuman Swain, Sara D. Williams, Louisa J. Di Felice, Elizabeth A. Hobson
In animal societies, individuals may take on different roles to fulfil their own needs and the needs of their groups. Ant colonies display high levels of organisational complexity, with ants fulfilling different roles at different timescales (what is known as task allocation). Factors affecting task allocation can be…
Helen Harman, Elizabeth I. Sklar
Multi-agent task allocation methods seek to distribute a set of tasks fairly amongst a set of agents. In real-world settings, such as soft fruit farms, human labourers undertake harvesting tasks. The harvesting workforce is typically organised by farm manager(s) who assign workers to the fields that are ready to be…
Maite Puerta-Beldarrain, Oihane Gómez-Carmona, Liming Chen, Diego López-de-Ipiña + 3 more
'Diego López-de-Ipiña' 'Diego Casado-Mansilla' 'Felipe Vergara-Borge' 'Antonio J. Jara'] This work addresses the task allocation problem in spatial crowdsensing with altruistic participation, tackling challenges like declining engagement and user fatigue from task overload. Unlike typical models relying on financial…
CM Lynch, RC Wilson, A Dornhaus
Division of labor, a key feature of many complex systems, requires a mechanism that allows individuals to choose tasks. The popular ‘response threshold hypothesis’ posits that some workers start engaging in particular tasks at a lower level of need than others. However, individuals may only have access to information…
Saeid Alirezazadeh, Luı́s A. Alexandre
A scheduling method in a robotic network cloud system with minimal makespan is beneficial as the system can complete all the tasks assigned to it in the fastest way. Robotic network cloud systems can be translated into graphs where nodes represent hardware with independent computing power and edges represent data…
Guang Fang
Job scheduling in cloud computing environments is a critical yet complex problem. Cloud computing user job requirements are highly dynamic and uncertain, while cloud computing resources are heterogeneous and constrained. This paper studies the online resource allocation problem for elastic computing jobs with soft…
Mayanka Katyal, Atul Mishra
Modern day continued demand for resource hungry services and applications in IT sector has led to development of Cloud computing. Cloud computing environment involves high cost infrastructure on one hand and need high scale computational resources on the other hand. These resources need to be provisioned (allocation…
A. Ramesh, B. Taborsky
Division of labour is a key feature of cooperative social systems, where task specialization among individuals enhances group efficiency. In the cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher reproductive division of labour exists, where a dominant breeding pair reproduces while subordinates help in rearing the…
Nathalie Liegel, Daniel Schneider, Edmund Wascher, Stefan Arnau
Most neuroscientific studies investigating mental effort apply unspecific effort allocation paradigms. In contrast, the present EEG study targets specific effort allocation during task prioritization. Twenty-eight participants performed a cued number classification task during the retention interval of a working memory…
Syed Arshad Ali, Samiya Khan, Mansaf Alam
— Resource allocation (RA) is a significant aspect in Cloud Computing, which facilitates the Cloud resources to Cloud consumers as a metered service. The Cloud resource manager is responsible to assign available resources to the tasks for execution in an effective way that improves system performance, reduce response…
Devesh Kumar Srivastava, Pradeep Kumar Tiwari, Mayank Srivastava, Babu R. Dawadi
'Babu R. Dawadi'] One of the important and challenging tasks in cloud computing is to obtain the usefulness of cloud by implementing several specifications for our needs, to meet the present growing demands, and to minimize energy consumption as much as possible and ensure proper utilization of computing resources. An…
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This comprehensive review examines the evolution of autonomous materials synthesis laboratories that integrate artificial intelligence with advanced robotics to accelerate discovery. Traditional materials development pipelines typically require 10-20 years, but self-driving laboratories (SDLs) and Materials…
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This paper presents GLAS (Git-based Lab Automated Scheduler or Get Lab Automation Simplified), an open-source, robust, and highly expandable Git-based architecture designed for laboratory automation. GLAS can be deployed in both partially and fully automated experimental science laboratories, enabling the development…
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For applications in gas sensing, purification, and capture, we often wish to search a large set of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for the top-K in terms of their Henry coefficient of an adsorbate. A molecular simulation to predict the Henry coefficient of a MOF constitutes a Monte Carlo integration where each sample…
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Background: Pharmaceutical batch scheduling in multi-reactor configurations presents complex optimization challenges under operational uncertainty, yet limited research addresses how parallel processing capacity affects heuristic performance and predictive modeling. Objectives: This study investigated scheduling…