A win-win team formation problem based on the negotiation
A win-win team formation problem based on the negotiation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.engappai.2015.06.001
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发表时间：
2015-09-01
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8
通讯作者：
Zhang, Jia
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作者：
Wang, Jian;Zhang, Jia
目前，许多研究都集中在团队成员的选择上，旨在组建一个能够协作解决共同任务或协作实现某一目标的团队。领导者或管理者需要通过从可用的候选人中选择合适的团队成员来最大化团队的利益。但是，在团队组建过程中，并没有考虑到团队成员的个人意见。为了考虑团队领导者和团队成员之间的相互决策，首先定义了一个基于协商的团队组建问题，其中考虑了领导者和团队成员利益需求的平衡。在此基础上，提出了一个领导者与团队成员之间的协商模型，以实现团队组建过程。针对这一过程中存在的冲突，采用了基于收益的激励机制。最后，引入基于Agent的协商方法，构建了协商仿真环境。协商过程迭代进行，直到领导Agent和候选Agent的利益要求都得到满足或到达协商的最后期限。实验结果表明，在不同的团队背景下，如不同的团队规模，不同的团队职位的最低标准和不同的激励水平，团队可以成功地形成。与领导者的单方面决策过程相比，基于协商的团队组建能使团队成员获得更多的利益。此外，候选人的不同偏好对最终利益获取的影响不同，团队职位最低标准和激励水平的不同对冲突解决的影响也不同。(C)2015爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Nowadays, many researches focus on the selection of the team members, and aim to form a team that can solve a common task collaboratively or achieve a certain goal cooperatively. The leader or manager needs to maximize the benefit of the team by selecting the appropriate team members from the available candidates. However, the personal opinions of team members have not been considered in the team formation process. In this paper, in order to consider the mutual decision between the leader and the team members, a negotiation based team formation problem is defined firstly, in which the balance of the benefit requirements of the leader and the team members is addressed. Then, a negotiation model between the leader and the team members is proposed to implement the team formation process. According to the conflicts in the process, an incentive mechanism based on the payoff is adopted. Finally, the agent-based negotiation approach is introduced to construct the simulation environment of the negotiation. The negotiation process is iterated until the benefit requirements of the leader agent and the candidate agents are all satisfied or the deadline of the negotiation is reached. The experiment results indicate that the team can be formed successfully in different team contexts, such as different team sizes, different minimum criteria of team positions and different incentive levels. Comparing with the leader's unilateral decision process, the negotiation-based team formation can make the team members acquire more benefits. In addition, the different preferences of the candidates have different effects on the final benefit acquirements, and the different minimum criteria of team positions and incentive levels have different effects on the conflicts resolution. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.