Collaboration process pattern approach to improving teamwork performance: A data mining-based methodology

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 438-456

  Fan, Shaokun ^a   Li, Xin ^b   Zhao, J Leon ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Collaboration process patterns; Pattern mining; Process efficiency; Software development; Teamwork efficiency

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; EFFICIENCY; MANAGERS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; COLLABORATION; COLLABORATION MANAGEMENT; COLLABORATION PATTERNS; COLLABORATION PROCESS; COLLABORATION SYSTEMS; PATTERN MINING; PROCESS EFFICIENCY;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85025470874     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.2016.0739     Document Type: Article

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