Title : 
An automated approach for generating project execution modes with multi-skilled workforce coalition formation
         
        
            Author : 
Houari, Nora ; Far, Behrouz H.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Project execution modes describe the set of possible alternatives in which the project can be performed by a group of agents with multiple skills and different performance levels. In this paper, we present a formalized model for automatically generating the project execution modes. Based on this model, an algorithm is described for finding the set of possible agents´ coalitions to perform the project. Experiments are presented showing the potential of our approach.
         
        
            Keywords : 
multi-agent systems; multiagent systems; multiskilled workforce coalition formation; project execution modes; Availability; Costs; Drives; Humans; Intelligent agent; Monitoring; Multiagent systems; Project management; Sampling methods; Scheduling; Algorithm; Coalition formation; Multi-agent Systems; Multi-skilled workforce; Project execution modes;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Reuse & Integration, 2009. IRI '09. IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Las Vegas, NV
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4114-3
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4116-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/IRI.2009.5211586