Task Release Control for Decision Making Queues
Optimization and Control
2010-10-11 v1
Abstract
We consider the optimal duration allocation in a decision making queue. Decision making tasks arrive at a given rate to a human operator. The correctness of the decision made by human evolves as a sigmoidal function of the duration allocated to the task. Each task in the queue loses its value continuously. We elucidate on this trade-off and determine optimal policies for the human operator. We show the optimal policy requires the human to drop some tasks. We present a receding horizon optimization strategy, and compare it with the greedy policy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1010.1549,
title = {Task Release Control for Decision Making Queues},
author = {Vaibhav Srivastava and Ruggero Carli and Francesco Bullo and Cédric Langbort},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.1549},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
8 pages, Submitted to American Controls Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 2011