Elsewhere, there is a heavy atmosphere of art-school labs in which the latest digital tools are put to work on arbitrary tasks.
There was no evidence that compelling claimants to perform arbitrary tasks (such as applying for target numbers of jobs each week) as a condition of receiving unemployment benefit (on the wrong assumption they would otherwise be cheating the system) helped them get jobs.
Arbitrary tasks can be allocated and de-allocated onto FPGA without system interruption.
For those that haven't played Xbox Live before, achievements are essentially arbitrary tasks created by the game developer (for example, beating the first level or creating a new character).
The center, with the power to impose arbitrary tasks and payments on the agents, has the additional goal that his net payment to these agents is never positive (or, that it is tightly bounded if a loss is unavoidable).
Next, for independent arbitrary tasks, we propose a ⟨ˉ2,1⟩-approximation algorithm (i.e. for any fixed value of the makespan, the obtained solution is optimal on the reliability and no more than twice the given makespan) that has a much lower complexity than the other existing algorithms.
