Decision support for team staffing: An automated relational recommendation approach

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 429-447

  Malinowski, Jochen ^a   Weitzel, Tim ^b   Keim, Tobias ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision support for personnel selection; Human resource management; Recommender system

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL SELECTION;

(E ,2E) THEORY; COST SAVINGS; DECISION SUPPORTS; ELSEVIER (CO); EXISTING SYSTEMS; TEAM MEMBERS; TECHNICAL SKILLS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 44849116359     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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