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Record W2947858290 · doi:10.1109/tase.2019.2908762

Solving the Tree-Structured Task Allocation Problem via Group Multirole Assignment

2019· article· en· W2947858290 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicCloud Computing and Resource Management
Canadian institutionsNipissing University
FundersScience and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong ProvinceNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsTask (project management)Assignment problemTree (set theory)Computer scienceMathematical optimizationResource allocationGeneralized assignment problemOptimization problemMathematicsAlgorithmEngineering

Abstract

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Task allocation is a critical phase of project management. Tree-type structures are frequently used constraints to obtain a pertinent task allocation. They can illustrate where one task may require numerous agents and when an agent can be assigned to different tasks (roles). The process of task allocation is made more complex when administrators need to satisfy sequential and fixed branch relationships between/among tasks (roles). This paper formalizes the tree-structured task allocation problem (TSTAP) with group multirole assignment (GMRA) and proves necessary conditions, the necessary and sufficient condition, as well as sufficient conditions, of TSTAP. The formalization makes it easy to find a solution with the IBM ILOG CPLEX optimization package (CPLEX). The necessary conditions improve the CPLEX solution by eliminating infeasible cases. The necessary and sufficient condition describes the solution space of TSTAP completely. Another exciting result is that the sufficient conditions can not only improve the CPLEX solution by describing a practical approximate solution space but also help decision-makers and human resource officers organize a team in order to successfully assign tasks. The proposed approach is verified by simulation experiments with respect to a real-world problem. The experimental results present the practicability of the proposed solutions in this paper. This paper was motivated by general cooperative projects whose tasks have tree-structured relationships. This can make the problem of successful multitask assignment extremely challenging. The traditional method of assignment such as the KM algorithm can no longer solve this problem. To solve the assignment problem with tree-structured relationships, an efficient many-to-many assignment with constraints is required. The proposed approach provides theoretical and technical foundations for efficient assignment of TSTA, which can not only provide a viable and effective assignment scheme for TSTA problems but also help human resource officers to formulate reasonable plans according to the relationships between/among tasks.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.848
Threshold uncertainty score0.357

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.193
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it