In the context of job scheduling, the time required to complete a task is related not only to the intrinsic difficulty of the task, but also to the operator's willingness to speed up (or slow down) its execution. In fact, service operators are sometimes authorized to flexibly calibrate job...

In the context of decentralized portfolio optimization, understanding how to distribute a fixed budget among decentralized intermediaries is a relevant investment problem, that has been recently introduced in the mathematical economics literature. While existing contributions focus on incentive...