%0 Journal Article
%T Task Release Control for Decision Making Queues
%A Vaibhav Srivastava
%A Ruggero Carli
%A Francesco Bullo
%A C¨¦dric Langbort
%J Mathematics
%D 2010
%I arXiv
%X We consider the optimal duration allocation in a decision making queue. Decision making tasks arrive at a given rate to a human operator. The correctness of the decision made by human evolves as a sigmoidal function of the duration allocated to the task. Each task in the queue loses its value continuously. We elucidate on this trade-off and determine optimal policies for the human operator. We show the optimal policy requires the human to drop some tasks. We present a receding horizon optimization strategy, and compare it with the greedy policy.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1549v1