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Cost-based task assignment

Delegate tasks according to resource cost

Assign tasks based on the cost of a resource, defined as the person’s per-hour cost when executing a task

Goel, K., Fehrer, T., Röglinger, M., & Wynn, M. T. (2023). Not Here, But There: Human Resource Allocation Patterns. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 377–394).

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