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Applications such as employees sharing office spaces over a workweek can be modeled as problems where agents are matched to resources over multiple rounds. Agents' requirements limit the set of compatible resources and the rounds in which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yohai Trabelsi , Abhijin Adiga , Sarit Kraus , S. S. Ravi , Daniel J. Rosenkrantz

Human-Machine Teaming (HMT) is revolutionizing collaboration across domains such as defense, healthcare, and autonomous systems by integrating AI-driven decision-making, trust calibration, and adaptive teaming. This survey presents a…

In this study, we examined the impact of recommendation systems' algorithms on individuals' collaborator choices when forming teams. Different algorithmic designs can lead individuals to select one collaborator over another, thereby shaping…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Diego Gomez-Zara , Victoria Kam , Charles Chiang , Leslie DeChurch , Noshir Contractor

In the standard model of fair allocation of resources to agents, every agent has some utility for every resource, and the goal is to assign resources to agents so that the agents' welfare is maximized. Motivated by job scheduling, interest…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Susobhan Bandopadhyay , Aritra Banik , Sushmita Gupta , Pallavi Jain , Abhishek Sahu , Saket Saurabh , Prafullkumar Tale

We present a general framework for modeling a wide selection of flocking scenarios under free boundary conditions. Several variants have been considered - including examples for the widely observed behavior of hierarchically interacting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-23 Yongnan Jia , Tamas Vicsek

Collaborative work often benefits from having teams or organizations with heterogeneous members. In this paper, we present a method to form such diverse teams from people arriving sequentially over time. We define a monotone submodular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Faez Ahmed , John Dickerson , Mark Fuge

Real-time control for robotics is a popular research area in the reinforcement learning community. Through the use of techniques such as reward shaping, researchers have managed to train online agents across a multitude of domains. Despite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Mihai Anca , Jonathan D. Thomas , Dabal Pedamonti , Matthew Studley , Mark Hansen

Organisations rely upon group formation to solve complex tasks, and groups often adapt to the demands of the task they face by changing their composition periodically. Previous research comes to ambiguous results regarding the effects of…

General Economics · Economics 2022-03-18 Darío Blanco-Fernández , Stephan Leitner , Alexandra Rausch

The manpower scheduling problem is a critical research field in the resource management area. Based on the existing studies on scheduling problem solutions, this paper transforms the manpower scheduling problem into a combinational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Lingyu Zhang , Tianyu Liu , Yunhai Wang

Decision makers are often confronted with complex tasks which cannot be solved by an individual alone, but require collaboration in the form of a coalition. Previous literature argues that instability, in terms of the re-organization of a…

General Economics · Economics 2020-10-08 Dario Blanco-Fernandez , Stephan Leitner , Alexandra Rausch

As robots are increasingly deployed in real-world scenarios, a key question is how to best transfer knowledge learned in one environment to another, where shifting constraints and human preferences render adaptation challenging. A central…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Andreea Bobu , Andi Peng

In this paper we study a resource allocation problem that encodes correlation between items in terms of \conflict and maximizes the minimum utility of the agents under a conflict free allocation. Admittedly, the problem is computationally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Sushmita Gupta , Pallavi Jain , Saket Saurabh

In this report we demonstrate the potential utility of resource allocation management systems that use virtual machine technology for sharing parallel computing resources among competing jobs. We formalize the resource allocation problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Mark Stillwell , David Schanzenbach , Frédéric Vivien , Henri Casanova

We consider the problem of assigning students to schools, when students have different utilities for schools and schools have capacity. There are additional group fairness considerations over students that can be captured either by concave…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Santhini K. A. , Kamesh Munagala , Meghana Nasre , Govind S. Sankar

The fundamental goal assignment problem for a multi-robot application aims to assign a unique goal to each robot while ensuring collision-free paths, minimizing the total movement cost. A plausible algorithmic solution to this NP-hard…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Aakash , Indranil Saha

A novel long-lived distributed problem, called Team Formation (TF), is introduced together with a message- and time-efficient randomized algorithm. The problem is defined over the asynchronous model with a complete communication graph,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuval Emek , Shay Kutten , Ido Rafael , Gadi Taubenfeld

In this paper I present several algorithmic techniques for improving the decision process of multiple types of agents behaving in environments where their interests are in conflict. The interactions between the agents are modelled by using…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-04 Mugurel Ionut Andreica

We consider the problem of assigning items to platforms in the presence of group fairness constraints. In the input, each item belongs to certain categories, called classes in this paper. Each platform specifies the group fairness…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Govind S. Sankar , Anand Louis , Meghana Nasre , Prajakta Nimbhorkar

An online labor platform faces an online learning problem in matching workers with jobs and using the performance on these jobs to create better future matches. This learning problem is complicated by the rise of complex tasks on these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Ramesh Johari , Vijay Kamble , Anilesh K. Krishnaswamy , Hannah Li

In this paper, we investigate the profit-driven team grouping problem in social networks. We consider a setting in which people possess different skills, and the compatibility between these individuals is captured by a social network.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan , Tao Li , Yao Wang