Task Assignment with Autonomous and Controlled Agents was the topic of an interactive seminar given by Dr. Florian Biermann at ISET on November 20, 2013. The assignment problem is one of the most famous branches of operational research. The general problem concerns a situation whereby one has a number of tasks that should be divided among employees. The purpose of the seminar was to show an algorithm for optimal task allocation among autonomous and controlled agents.
Dr. Biermann immediately attracted the attention of the audience by introducing an interesting and very suitable example concerning ISET. The example was as follows: four tasks need to be divided among four agents (four ISET faculty members), the efficiency of the different tasks done by different faculty members is different. The aim was to find the way that the tasks should be divided in order to maximize the outcome for the institution.
Every day at ISET is devoted to teaching and studying, but October 15, 2013 was a day especially dedicated to education issues. ISET introduced its new Human Resources (HR) concentration and hosted Maia Miminoshvili, the Director of the National Examinations Center, in a joint event.
In the first part of the event, Muhammad Asali, the ISET professor coordinating the new concentration and Rusudan Medzmariashvili, a representative of BP Georgia – the donor organization for the new program – gave some background information regarding the HR concentration. BP Georgia has been with ISET since the very beginning and continues to generously support us by funding a specific focus on human resources. As Mrs. Medzmariashvili mentioned, ISET is an exception among BP-funded projects and the organization will continue to support our institution due to ISET’s contribution to Georgia’s future and the evident continuous enhancement of quality. Seven ISET students have already enrolled in the HR concentration.