Role negotiation (RN) is situated at the initial stage of the role-based collaboration (RBC)
methodology and is independent of the subsequent agent evaluation and role assignment …

This article systematically establishes a new category of assignment problems by reviewing
and extending the problems related to group role assignment (GRA) from a novel vision …

When earthquakes occur, solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles (SUAVs), deployed as
communication relay points, can construct a signal relay network to assist the ground mobile …

Self-service spatiotemporal crowdsourcing (SSC), a booming variant of spatiotemporal
crowdsourcing (SC), emerges because of the vigorous development of the mobile Internet …

The World Bank estimates that the number of refugees worldwide will reach 140 million by
2050 due to global warming and local wars. Considering the rapid increase in the number of …

Last-mile logistics is a crucial phase of online commodity trades. In last-mile logistics, one of
the critical problems is to reasonably assign couriers to distribute the products in time in …

Group role assignment (GRA) is originally a complex problem in role-based collaboration
(RBC). The solution to GRA provides modelling techniques for more complex problems …

Group role assignment with cooperation and conflict factors (GRACCFs) is a creative social
computing method for team establishment. It can maximize the new team's performance …

Computational social simulation is a long-term, cutting-edge topic in the interdisciplinary
field where information technology, computer science, social science, and sociology …

Task allocation is a critical phase of project management. Tree-type structures are frequently
used constraints to obtain a pertinent task allocation. They can illustrate where one task may …