M–M Role-Transfer Problems and Their Solutions

Many-to-many (M-M) role transfers are generalized problems that occur normally in collaboration, management, and the operation of organizations. This paper extends our previous work on role transfer. It is the first attempt to formalize the M-M role-transfer problems with real-world management examples, analyze the different cases of M-M problems, design algorithms for all the cases, implement all the algorithms to provide solutions, and discuss the future work. The significant contribution of this paper is to demonstrate that role-transfer problems have definite solutions. The implementations and their results validate the proposed algorithms.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans

• Publication date

  2009-03-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/TSMCA.2008.2009924
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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