Online formation of large tree-structured team

Cheng Ding, Fan Xia, Gopakumar, Weining Qian, Aoying Zhou

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Abstract

Software projects are often divided into different components and groups of individuals are assigned to various parts of the project. The matching of modular components of the project with right set of individuals is a fundamental challenge in both commercial and open source software projects. However, most of the extant studies on team formation have only considered the problem of creating flat teams, i.e., teams without communities and central authorities. In this paper, we study the problem of forming a hierarchically structured team. We use tree structure to model both teams and task specifications and introduce the notion of sub-team. Next, we define local density to minimize communication costs in sub-teams. Then, two algorithms are proposed to address this team formation problem in bottom up and top down manners. Furthermore, sub-teams are pre-computed and indexed to facilitate online formation of large teams. Results of experiments with a large dataset suggest that the index based algorithm can achieve both good effectiveness and excellent efficiency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDatabase Systems for Advanced Applications - DASFAA 2017 International Workshops
Subtitle of host publicationBDMS, BDQM, SeCoP, and DMMOOC, Proceedings
EditorsLijun Chang, Goce Trajcevski, Wen Hua, Zhifeng Bao
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages118-132
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783319557045
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
EventInternational Workshops on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2017, 4th International Workshop on Big Data Management and Service, BDMS 2017, 2nd Workshop on Big Data Quality Management, BDQM 2017, 4th International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Personalization, SeCoP 2017, 1st International Workshop on Data Management and Mining on MOOCs, DMMOOC 2017 - Suzhou, China
Duration: 27 Mar 201730 Mar 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10179 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshops on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2017, 4th International Workshop on Big Data Management and Service, BDMS 2017, 2nd Workshop on Big Data Quality Management, BDQM 2017, 4th International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Personalization, SeCoP 2017, 1st International Workshop on Data Management and Mining on MOOCs, DMMOOC 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CitySuzhou
Period27/03/1730/03/17

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