Francis Bloch, Professor of Economics at Université Paris 1 and the Paris School of Economics, visted the NCID to give as seminar entitled "Task allocation in networks".

He studies dynamic task allocation when there is a fixed bipartite network associating workers to tasks. Also he analyzes two approaches - centralized and decentralized. First,  the optimal policy of a planner whose objective is to minimize the expected time of completion of all tasks. Second, a game played by workers who independently choose their tasks and are rew...