We analyse assignment problems in which not every agent is controlled by the central planner. The autonomous agents search for vacant tasks guided by their own preference orders over available tasks. The goal of the central planner is to maximise the total value of the assignment, taking into...

The portfolio optimization problem has attracted researchers from many disciplines to resolve the issue of poor out-of-sample performance due to estimation errors in the expected returns. A practical method for portfolio construction is to use assets’ ordering information, expressed in the...