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Sequential Online Chore Division for Autonomous Vehicle Convoy Formation.
Harel
Yedidsion, Shani Alkoby, and Peter
Stone.
Technical Report arXiv e-Prints 2104.04159, arXiv, 2021.
arXiv
Chore division is a class of fair division problems in which some undesirable"resource" must be shared among a set of participants, with each participantwanting to get as little as possible. Typically the set of participants isfixed and known at the outset. This paper introduces a novel variant, calledsequential online chore division (SOCD), in which participants arrive anddepart online, while the chore is being performed: both the total number ofparticipants and their arrival/departure times are initially unknown. In SOCD,exactly one agent must be performing the chore at any give time (e.g. keepinglookout), and switching the performer incurs a cost. In this paper, we proposeand analyze three mechanisms for SOCD: one centralized mechanism using sidepayments, and two distributed ones that seek to balance the participants'loads. Analysis and results are presented in a domain motivated by autonomousvehicle convoy formation, where the chore is leading the convoy so that allfollowers can enjoy reduced wind resistance.
@Techreport{Convoy-Yedidsion,
author = {Harel Yedidsion and Shani Alkoby and Peter Stone},
title = {Sequential Online Chore Division for Autonomous Vehicle Convoy Formation},
month = {April},
year = {2021},
institution = "arXiv",
number = "arXiv e-Prints 2104.04159",
abstract = {
Chore division is a class of fair division problems in which some undesirable
"resource" must be shared among a set of participants, with each participant
wanting to get as little as possible. Typically the set of participants is
fixed and known at the outset. This paper introduces a novel variant, called
sequential online chore division (SOCD), in which participants arrive and
depart online, while the chore is being performed: both the total number of
participants and their arrival/departure times are initially unknown. In SOCD,
exactly one agent must be performing the chore at any give time (e.g. keeping
lookout), and switching the performer incurs a cost. In this paper, we propose
and analyze three mechanisms for SOCD: one centralized mechanism using side
payments, and two distributed ones that seek to balance the participants'
loads. Analysis and results are presented in a domain motivated by autonomous
vehicle convoy formation, where the chore is leading the convoy so that all
followers can enjoy reduced wind resistance.
},
wwwnote={<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04159">arXiv</a>},
}
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