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Integrated product development (IPD) is a holistic approach that helps to overcome problems that arise in complex product development environments. This paper presents a model that aims to support the optimal formulation and assignment of multi-functional teams in IPD organizations - or any project-based organization. The model accounts for limited availability of personnel, required skills, team homogeneity, and, further, maximizes organization’s payoff by formulating and assigning teams to projects with higher expected payoffs. A Pareto multi-objective particle swarm optimization approach was used to solve the model. It allows personnel to work in several concurrent projects and considers both person-job and person-team fit.
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Abdelsalam, H.M.E. (2009). Multi-objective Team Forming Optimization for Integrated Product Development Projects. In: Abraham, A., Hassanien, AE., Siarry, P., Engelbrecht, A. (eds) Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 3. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01085-9_15
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