Research Article
Analysis on Communication Cost and Team Performance in Team Formation Problem
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-00916-8_41, author={Weijun Chen and Jing Yang and Yang Yu}, title={Analysis on Communication Cost and Team Performance in Team Formation Problem}, proceedings={Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 13th International Conference, CollaborateCom 2017, Edinburgh, UK, December 11--13, 2017, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM}, year={2018}, month={10}, keywords={Team formation Collaboration Communication cost Social network metrics}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-00916-8_41} }- Weijun Chen
Jing Yang
Yang Yu
Year: 2018
Analysis on Communication Cost and Team Performance in Team Formation Problem
COLLABORATECOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00916-8_41
Abstract
Team formation problem refers to finding a set of skillful individuals to accomplish given tasks as a team. A growing interest of recent researches on team formation is to concern the collaboration factor, following the general idea that effective communication among team members may contribute to better team performance. Previous studies have introduced a variety of ways to model the collaboration factor applying the concept communication cost, yet few have investigated the effectiveness of the proposed metrics. In this paper, an empirical study is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of existing communication cost metrics in terms of the influence on team performance. We select real data from IMDb as an example for the study and apply statistical analysis. Based on the result of evaluation, we further propose modification for the communication cost metrics and demonstrate the feasibility. This empirical study is expected to provide suggestion and inspiration for both researchers and practitioners, while design or select models to solve team formation problem in different application scenarios.