Many systems or applications have been developed for distributed environments with the
goal of attaining multiple objectives in the face of environmental challenges such as high …

In this survey we review the literature and concepts of the data mining of social networks,
with special emphasis on their representation as a graph structure. The survey is divided …

Paid crowd work offers remarkable opportunities for improving productivity, social mobility,
and the global economy by engaging a geographically distributed workforce to complete …

Most real-time computer-controlled systems are built in two separate steps, each in isolation:
controller design and its digital implementation. Computational tasks that realize the control …

We present SmartCrowd, a framework for optimizing task assignment in knowledge-
intensive crowdsourcing (KI-C). SmartCrowd distinguishes itself by formulating, for the first …

With a growing interest in high-performing work teams and how to form them, a new
computational challenge, denominated Team Formation Problem (TFP), has emerged. After …

We tackle the problem of finding a team of experts from a social network to complete a
project that requires a set of skills. The social network is modeled as a graph. A node in the …

Group recommendation has become highly demanded when users communicate in the
forms of group activities in online sharing communities. These group activities include …

Crowdsourcing has become a popular service computing paradigm for requesters to
integrate the ubiquitous human-intelligence services for tasks that are difficult for computers …

In project management, especially of software development, human resource allocation is
critical not only for project success including timely delivery and products quality but also for …