A User-Aware Multi-Agent System for Team Building

In this chapter we present a system for the management of team building and team update activities in the current human resource management scenario. The proposed system presents three important characteristics that appear particularly relevant in this scenario. Firstly, it exploits a suitable standard to uniformly represent and handle expert skills. Secondly, it is highly distributed and, therefore, is well suited for the typical organization of the current job market where consulting firms are intermediating most job positions. Finally, it considers not only experts’ technical skills but also their social and organizational capabilities, as well as the affinity degree possibly shown by them when they worked together in the past.