I think providing both the motivation for task allocation and related work are so closely intertwined here that we should blend both. It will make the introduction seem longer and more coherent.
It will alleviate the following reviewer concerns:
Reviewer 2:
I am not sure whether the background section is really complete. for instance there is quite a bit of work on large coordination and anti-coordination games for multi-agent task allocation (think for instance of the work Shoham, Grenager and Powers on dispersion games; or the work of Tumer et al.)
Reviewer 3:
1) The motivation of the paper should be improved, especially stressing on the idea why it is relevant to use games, like global games as a formal model for task aggregation. What advantages does modeling the process as a game offer? The introduction section of the paper should be rewritten while describing and motivating the problem and summarizing the key contributions and results of the paper, instead of getting into description of model parameters in the very second paragraph. Also, as in conventional in journal papers, a section-wise summary of the paper should be provided at the end of the first section.
Removed subsections from the introduction and added in a paper layout paragraph in the end. Have to make the introduction flow without subsections now.
I think providing both the motivation for task allocation and related work are so closely intertwined here that we should blend both. It will make the introduction seem longer and more coherent.
It will alleviate the following reviewer concerns: Reviewer 2: I am not sure whether the background section is really complete. for instance there is quite a bit of work on large coordination and anti-coordination games for multi-agent task allocation (think for instance of the work Shoham, Grenager and Powers on dispersion games; or the work of Tumer et al.)
Reviewer 3: 1) The motivation of the paper should be improved, especially stressing on the idea why it is relevant to use games, like global games as a formal model for task aggregation. What advantages does modeling the process as a game offer? The introduction section of the paper should be rewritten while describing and motivating the problem and summarizing the key contributions and results of the paper, instead of getting into description of model parameters in the very second paragraph. Also, as in conventional in journal papers, a section-wise summary of the paper should be provided at the end of the first section.