Intelligent team formation companies appliying quality certification

ABSTRACT INTELLIGENT TEAM FORMATION FOR COMPANIES APPLYING QUALITY CERTIFICATION EMRE, G. Sena M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Türkay DERELİ August 2003, 104 pages In this thesis, a. fuzzy team-formation model has been developed for the formation of a Quality Audit (QA) team, which has the appropriate team size and team members. The team formation problem is a decision-making problem, which contains subjectivity, imprecise information and vague human evaluations. Fuzzy Logic (FL) is used, in order to model the problem accurately and correctly. Fuzzy ratings method is used to calculate the fuzzy compatibility values of each candidate that shows the match between the skills of the team members and the skills required for an audit team. The obtained values are utilized to form the fuzzy objectives. Afterwards, the formulated fuzzy objectives are maximized to form the best team under several constraints like budget and schedule. Simulated Annealing algorithm is employed for the solution of the proposed fuzzy mathematical model and a computer program in C++ programming language is prepared. Keywords: Team Formation, Fuzzy Logic, Quality Auditing in