Using reservations for multiagent resource allocation with costly preemption
Using reservations for multiagent resource allocation with costly preemption is a scholarly work, published in 2018 in ''Multiagent and Grid Systems''. The main subjects of the publication include agent-based model, Resource, auction theory, resource allocation, task, resource management, crowdsourcing, operations research, distributed computing, cindynics, glossary of archaeology, teamwork, preemption, and computer science. The authors then introduce the concept of resource reservations to address expected future changes in the task allocation environment; accounting for switching costs and considering irrevocable allocations both become desirable.