On Math Approach to Tourist Project Team Formation Problem Concerning Performance and Cooperative Effects
Sergey S. Ukustov, И.М. Макаров, Alla Grigorievna Kravets, Ekaterina V. Romanenko · 2013
Abstract: In an increasingly competitive during the saturation of the market, as well as moments of the downturn and economic crisis, the heads of travel companies of small and medium-sized businesses looking for resources to improve business performance. The use of modern technologies gives a definite effect of the business, creating a competitive advantage for a tourist company. Tourist project team formation is a difficult problem. One should select manager suitable for each particular task in a pool while carefully weighing results of possible interactions between team members. We discern between competence and performance. An mathematical approach for the problem which is able to measure members ' interactions influence on team performance is proposed. In addition, new team performance measure in order to handle its non-additivity is proposed. Competence and requirements are mapped in a tourist company skill space so that distance or dissimilarity can be calculated. Performance is calculated for a team using proposed measure. Tasks are assigned to managers so as to minimize complex value of team performance and average dissimilarity. Numerical example is provided. Key words: Mathematical approach Market Travel companies Business performance