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Interaction mining and skill-dependent recommendations for multi-objective team composition.

Christoph Dorn1, Florian Skopik, Daniel Schall

  • 1Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3455, USA.

Data & Knowledge Engineering
|February 3, 2012
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Summary
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This study introduces a novel approach to team formation, balancing skills and connectivity using genetic algorithms and simulated annealing. It enhances collaboration networks by incorporating implicit recommendations, even in sparse environments.

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Area of Science:

  • Computer Science
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Web 2.0 technologies facilitate monitoring and analysis of human interactions and team dynamics.
  • Effective team composition necessitates balancing skill coverage with social connectivity.
  • Understanding interaction structures is crucial for predicting collaboration success.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address an extended team formation problem incorporating both direct interactions and implicit recommendations.
  • To develop heuristics for discovering efficient team configurations balancing skill coverage and connectivity.
  • To create a self-adjusting mechanism for optimizing direct interactions and recommendations in network connectivity.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing for heuristic-based team configuration discovery.
  • Developed a self-adjusting mechanism to integrate direct interactions and implicit recommendations for network connectivity.
  • Evaluated the approach using simulated collaboration networks mirroring real-world expert networks.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated the successful identification of efficient team configurations.
  • Showcased the algorithm's robustness in maintaining performance with up to 40% expert removal.
  • Validated the approach's effectiveness across diverse social network configurations.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed heuristics effectively balance skill coverage and team connectivity in complex networks.
  • Implicit recommendations significantly enhance collaboration in sparsely connected networks.
  • The method provides a robust solution for optimizing team formation in dynamic online environments.