Group Decision Making for Criteria Importance Determination in Student Project Team Formation Problems

This study presents a simple group decision making (aggregation) procedure for criteria importance determination in student project team formation problems. A typical student project team formation problem might involve several restrictions and requirements as well as the preferences of the potential team members, usually students and academic advisers. A recent study of Cavdur et al (2018b) presents a two-phase binary-goal programming-based approach for solving such a student project team formation problem which basically includes two types of allocations; the allocations of students and academic advisers. In this study, we present some group decision making approaches for criteria importance determination in the student project team formation problem presented in the study of Cavdur et al. (2018b). The results of the questionnaires conducted on two samples (of students and academic advisers) are used to obtain the perspectives of each person as a potential team member. Some aggregation methods in group decision making are then used in order to produce the corresponding group decision in each case. Finally, resulted group decisions are used as the inputs of the goal programming models. Optimal team formations for different cases are analyzed with respect to some problem metrics.

Keywords:

Student project team formation , student project allocation , multi criteria decision making , group decision making , goal programming