Multi-aspect group formation using facility location analysis

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an optimization framework to retrieve an optimal group of experts to perform a given multi-aspect task/project. Each task needs a diverse set of skills and the group of assigned experts should be able to collectively cover all required aspects of the task. We consider three types of multiaspect team formation problems and propose a unified framework to solve these problems accurately and efficiently. Our proposed framework is based on Facility Location Analysis (FLA) which is a well known branch of the Operation Research (OR). Our experiments on a real dataset show significant improvement in comparison with the state-of-the art approaches for the team formation problem.

Information Technology for the Integrated Assessment of Expert Competency

“…Scientific papers [13][14] suggest using the unified optimization framework based on the Facility Location Analysis, which is a well-known branch of the Operation Research for solving three types of problems to form a group of experts. Scientific paper [15] presents a new approach for determining the weighting factors of experts in a group while solving problems.…”

Measuring the match between evaluators and evaluees: cognitive distances between panel members and research groups at the journal level

“…The principal objective of such evaluations is to improve the quality of scientific research groups or departments within a national or regional context (Engels, Goos, Dexters, & Spruyt, 2013). In academia, publications are considered key indicators of expertise (Rybak, Balog, & Nørvåg, 2014) that help to identify the qualified or similar experts to assign papers for review (Neshati, Beigy, & Hiemstra, 2012), and to form an expert panel (Hashemi, Neshati, & Beigy, 2013).…”

Expert group formation using facility location analysis

“…The basic idea of our work has been published in a paper of the ADCS conference (Neshati, Beigy, & Hiemstra, 2012). However, the conference paper does not have a complete description of the proposed algorithms due to the page limit.…”