TeamGen: An interactive team formation system based on professional social network

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

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Abstract

We introduce TeamGen, an interactive team formation system, to form project teams interactively by leveraging professional social network information of potential members. Unlike earlier approaches that focused on creating flat teams, i.e., teams without communities and central authorities, we model teams as hierarchical structures to reflect the ubiquitous nature of teams in real commercial and open source projects. Correspondingly, our team formation algorithms emphasize local density of sub teams to assess communication costs of newly formed teams. During the demonstration, audience can (a) explore professional social network of potential members, (b) learn the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed team formation algorithms by comparing them with existing ones, (c) inspect and understand the process of team formation, and (d) interactively refine a project team by revoking computed position assignments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication26th International World Wide Web Conference 2017, WWW 2017 Companion
PublisherInternational World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee
Pages195-199
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450349147
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event26th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2017 Companion - Perth, Australia
Duration: 3 Apr 20177 Apr 2017

Publication series

Name26th International World Wide Web Conference 2017, WWW 2017 Companion

Conference

Conference26th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2017 Companion
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityPerth
Period3/04/177/04/17

Keywords

  • Social network
  • Team formation

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