A survey of task allocation techniques in MAS

GM Skaltsis, HS Shin… - … Conference on Unmanned …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-agent systems and especially unmanned vehicles, are a crucial part of the solution to a
lot of real world problems, making essential the improvement of task allocation techniques …

Applying autonomy to distributed satellite systems: Trends, challenges, and future prospects

C Araguz, E Bou‐Balust, E Alarcón - Systems Engineering, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
While monolithic satellite missions still pose significant advantages in terms of accuracy and
operations, novel distributed architectures are promising improved flexibility …

When doing nothing is something. How task allocation strategies compromise between flexibility, efficiency, and inactive agents

D Charbonneau, A Dornhaus - Journal of Bioeconomics, 2015 - Springer
We expect that human organizations and cooperative animal groups should be optimized for
collective performance. This often involves the allocation of different individuals to different …

Recent algorithmic advances in population protocols

D Alistarh, R Gelashvili - ACM SIGACT News, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Population protocols are a popular model of distributed computing, introduced by Angluin,
Aspnes, Diamadi, Fischer, and Peralta [6] a little over a decade ago. In the meantime, the …

Dynamics of task allocation in social insect colonies: scaling effects of colony size versus work activities

T Feng, D Charbonneau, Z Qiu, Y Kang - Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2021 - Springer
The mechanisms through which work is organized are central to understanding how
complex systems function. Previous studies suggest that task organization can emerge via …

Dynamical models of task organization in social insect colonies

Y Kang, G Theraulaz - Bulletin of mathematical biology, 2016 - Springer
The organizations of insect societies, such as division of labor, task allocation, collective
regulation, mass action responses, have been considered as main reasons for the …

A review of task allocation methods for UAVs

GM Skaltsis, HS Shin, A Tsourdos - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2023 - Springer
Unmanned aerial vehicles, can offer solutions to a lot of problems, making it crucial to
research more and improve the task allocation methods used. In this survey, the main …

Exogenous coordination in multi-scale systems: How information flows and timing affect system properties

A Diaconescu, LJ Di Felice, P Mellodge - Future Generation Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
The architecture of coordination mechanisms is central to the performance and behaviour of
(self-) integrated systems across natural, socio-technical and cyber–physical domains. Multi …

Task allocation algorithm for energy resources providing frequency containment reserves

C Giovanelli, O Kilkki, S Sierla… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The uncertainty caused by the variability in renewable energy production requires the
engagement of consumer-side energy production and consumption to provide sufficient …

[HTML][HTML] On geometric shape construction via growth operations

N Almalki, O Michail - Theoretical Computer Science, 2024 - Elsevier
We study algorithmic growth processes under a geometric setting. Each process begins with
an initial shape of nodes SI= S 0 and, in every time step t≥ 1, by applying (in parallel) one or …