Abstract The Team Formation problem (TFP) has become a well-known problem in the OR
literature over the last few years. In this problem, the allocation of multiple individuals that …

In project management, especially of software development, human resource allocation is
critical not only for project success including timely delivery and products quality but also for …

Crowdsourcing has become a popular service computing paradigm for requesters to
integrate the ubiquitous human-intelligence services for tasks that are difficult for computers …

Research suggests that political skill affects how salespeople build and leverage social
capital. However, there are important questions left unanswered in this relationship. First …

Finding a qualified individual who can independently answer a question on a community
question answering platform is becoming more challenging due to the increasing …

Collaboration networks are social networks in which nodes represent experts, and edges
represent the interactions between them. Team Formation Problem (TFP) in Social Networks …

Agile team formation is an important requirement of software companies. Since the members
of an agile team should be generalizing specialists (ie T-shaped experts), we need …

The task of finding groups or teams has recently received increased attention, as a natural
and challenging extension of search tasks aimed at retrieving individual entities. We …

Formation of effective teams of experts has played a crucial role in successful projects
especially in social networks. In this paper, a new particle swarm optimization (PSO) …

In the area of professional social networks, collaborative team formation with its NP-hard
nature, has attracted the attention of many researchers. The purpose of this study is to find a …