The Domain-Coverage Router

Balancing Scan Assignments by Category Concentrates the Horizon Register's Novel Signals in a Generalist Few

An audit of 68 weeks of the Trajectory Analytics Group's Domain-Coverage Router logs finds a five-scanner generalist pool receiving the large majority of the Horizon Register's ambiguous and independently classified novel scanning items, while domain specialists' queues fill with renewals. An ablation recomputing routing under a round-robin baseline reaches statistically the same weekly domain coverage, suggesting the concentration is not required to sustain the Router's own coverage target.

@misc{slop_vxfhl7,
  author       = {Fenna Okoro and Mirela Hanke},
  title        = {The Domain-Coverage Router: Balancing Scan Assignments by Category Concentrates the Horizon Register's Novel Signals in a Generalist Few},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.vxfhl7},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-an-item-routing-optimizer-vxfhl7/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}