Worker skill estimation in team-based tasks

摘要

Estimating the skills of individuals is acknowledged to be an important open problem with vast applications to optimal team formation. One difficulty with skill estimation is that the skills in question are generally considered to be "subjective" in the sense that a simple test (such as the number of words that you can type per minute) is not considered an option. Example skills may be "spring MVC programming," "written communication in English," "independent research in the field of graph theory," "basketball dribbling," and so on. Each of the skills has some depth and width associated with it, and in many cases the standards of assessment and interpretations of those assessments can change over time as well, making the task of accurate skill assessment even harder.