The suitability of agents for tasks and ranked preference of tasks for agents play a significant role in problems where several agents are available to perform various tasks. The agents should be allocated to various tasks so that the corresponding assignment schedules must provide solution...

We present a unified duality approach to Bayesian persuasion. The optimal dual variable, interpreted as a price function on the state space, is shown to be a supergradient of the concave closure of the objective function at the prior belief. Strong duality holds when the objective function is...