This paper presents and formalizes the problem of assigning and scheduling a set of tasks to a set of workers when the worker's performance on a task depends on the experience of the worker of this task and of the other tasks involved. We assume that the main objective is to assign the tasks by...

We study a two-period moral hazard problem with risk-neutral and wealth-constrained agents and three identical tasks. We show that the allocation of tasks over time is important if there is a capacity constraint on the number of tasks that can be performed in one period. We characterize the...

The task allocation problem (TAP) is one where a number of tasks or modules need to be assigned to a set of processors or machines at minimum overall cost. The overall cost includes the communication cost between tasks that are assigned to different processors and other costs such as the...