• DocumentCode
    1051681
  • Title

    M–M Role-Transfer Problems and Their Solutions

  • Author

    Zhu, Haibin ; Zhou, MengChu

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Math., Nipissing Univ., North Bay, ON
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    3/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    448
  • Lastpage
    459
  • Abstract
    Many-to-many (M-M) role transfers are generalized problems that occur normally in collaboration, management, and the operation of organizations. This paper extends our previous work on role transfer. It is the first attempt to formalize the M-M role-transfer problems with real-world management examples, analyze the different cases of M-M problems, design algorithms for all the cases, implement all the algorithms to provide solutions, and discuss the future work. The significant contribution of this paper is to demonstrate that role-transfer problems have definite solutions. The implementations and their results validate the proposed algorithms.
  • Keywords
    management science; organisational aspects; collaboration; management; many-to-many role transfers; organizations; Emergency management; information systems; organization; role; role transfer;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1083-4427
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TSMCA.2008.2009924
  • Filename
    4732144