PLoS ONE (Jan 2018)

An empirical study of collaborative capacity evaluation and scheduling optimization for a CPD project.

  • Xiaolei Wang,
  • Tiejun Ci,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai,
  • Aijun Liu,
  • Quan Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200753
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 8
p. e0200753

Abstract

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In a collaborative product design project, reasonable resource allocation can shorten the development cycle and reduce cost. Team capacity evaluation and a task-team scheduling model are presented. A collaborative team capacity model is constructed, and a 2-tuple linguistic method is used to evaluate the capacity of collaborative teams. Next, the matching degree between design task and collaborative team is defined. A collaborative product design scheduling model considering task-team matching is developed. Combined with the simulated annealing operator, based on the single-coding strategy, self-adaptive multi-point cross and mutation, an improved genetic algorithm is proposed to solve the model. Finally, a case study is presented to validate the method.