Title
Multi-objective decision analysis for competence-oriented project portfolio selection
Abstract
This paper develops a multi-objective optimization model for project portfolio selection taking employee competencies and their evolution into account. The objectives can include economic gains as well as gains expressed in terms of aggregated competence increments according to pre-defined profiles. In order to determine Pareto-optimal solutions, the overall problem is decomposed into a master problem addressing the portfolio selection itself, and a slave problem dealing with a suitable assignment of personnel to the work packages of the selected projects over time. We provide an asymptotic approximation of the problem by a linearized formulation, which allows an efficient and exact solution of the slave problem. For the solution of the master problem, we compare the multi-objective metaheuristics NSGA-II and P-ACO. Experimental results both for synthetically generated test instances and for real-world test instances, based on an application case from the E-Commerce Competence Center Austria, are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.ejor.2010.01.041
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multiple criteria analysis,Competence development,Metaheuristics,Project portfolios,Staff scheduling
Decision analysis,Competence (human resources),Mathematical optimization,Project portfolio management,Operations research,Model selection,Portfolio,Mathematics,Metamodeling,Operations management,Metaheuristic,Project management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
205
3
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
29
1.16
22
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Walter J. Gutjahr1121987.10
Stefan Katzensteiner2723.41
Peter Reiter3794.18
Christian Stummer456739.96
Michaela Denk51129.60