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Adaptive use of task assignment models in team-based mobile business processes
Most mobile business processes are executed under uncertain and dynamic working environments. This makes the traditional centralized approach for the management of mobile tasks inappropriate to respond to the changes in working environment quickly as collecting the changing information from geographically distributed workforces in real time is expensive if not impossible. This raises the need of a distributed approach in the management of mobile tasks. This paper proposes a distributed architecture for team-based coordination support for mobile task management. In this architecture, tasks are managed via peer-to-peer style coordination between team members who have better understanding on the changing working environment than a centralised system. The novelty of the design of the architecture is explained by applying it to a real business process in the UK
Evaluation of team dynamic in Norwegian projects for IT students
The need for teaching realistic software development in project courses has
increased in a global scale. It has always been challenges in cooperating
fast-changing software technologies, development methodologies and teamwork.
Moreover, such project courses need to be designed in the connection to
existing theoretical courses. We performed a large-scale research on student
performance in Software Engineering projects in Norwegian universities. This
paper investigates four aspects of team dynamics, which are team reflection,
leadership, decision making and task assignment in order to improve student
learning. Data was collected from student projects in 4 years at two
universities. We found that some leader's characteristics are perceived
differently for female and male leaders, including the perception of leaders as
skilful workers or visionaries. Leadership is still a challenging aspect to
teach, and assigned leadership is probably not the best way to learn. Students
is are performing well in task review, however, needs support while performing
task assignment. The result also suggests that task management to be done in
more fine-grained levels. It is also important to maintain an open and active
discussion to facilitate effective group decision makings
Scheduling policies and system software architectures for mixed-criticality computing
Mixed-criticality model of computation is being increasingly
adopted in timing-sensitive systems. The model not only
ensures that the most critical tasks in a system never fails,
but also aims for better systems resource utilization in normal condition. In this report, we describe the widely used
mixed-criticality task model and fixed-priority scheduling
algorithms for the model in uniprocessors. Because of the
necessity by the mixed-criticality task model and scheduling
policies, isolation, both temporal and spatial, among tasks is
one of the main requirements from the system design point
of view. Different virtualization techniques have been used
to design system software architecture with the goal of isolation. We discuss such a few system software architectures
which are being and can be used for mixed-criticality model
of computation
Optimization in Knowledge-Intensive Crowdsourcing
We present SmartCrowd, a framework for optimizing collaborative
knowledge-intensive crowdsourcing. SmartCrowd distinguishes itself by
accounting for human factors in the process of assigning tasks to workers.
Human factors designate workers' expertise in different skills, their expected
minimum wage, and their availability. In SmartCrowd, we formulate task
assignment as an optimization problem, and rely on pre-indexing workers and
maintaining the indexes adaptively, in such a way that the task assignment
process gets optimized both qualitatively, and computation time-wise. We
present rigorous theoretical analyses of the optimization problem and propose
optimal and approximation algorithms. We finally perform extensive performance
and quality experiments using real and synthetic data to demonstrate that
adaptive indexing in SmartCrowd is necessary to achieve efficient high quality
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