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Computer Supported Team Formation

Authors : Georgios Stavrou, Panagiotis Adamidis, Jason Papathanasiou

Published in: Decision Support Systems VIII: Sustainable Data-Driven and Evidence-Based Decision Support

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Composing teams may be a time consuming and complex task. In any type of teams, the adequate selection of individuals to a team may increase the intellectual growth of the team in order to cooperate and reach the established goals. However, success of the composed team is not always guaranteed. To fill this gap, researchers develop different tools aiming to help team makers to assign team members to teams, in order to satisfy their expectations. The main goal of this paper is to present a literature review on team formation methodologies, tools, and applications that have been implemented. In this paper we present an analysis of what are teams, and its social structure. Next, a literature review and the efforts of computer supported team formation are presented and finally, the efforts of the researchers to achieve the optimal result are discussed.

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Metadata
Title
Computer Supported Team Formation
Authors
Georgios Stavrou
Panagiotis Adamidis
Jason Papathanasiou
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Decision Support Systems VIII: Sustainable Data-Driven and Evidence-Based Decision Support

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-90314-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-90315-6

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90315-6_10

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