A task-oriented approach to select experts for aerospace Cops projects

The expert selection is an important decision problem in the research and development process of complex product systems (CoPS) projects and suitable experts will facilitate the successful task achievement. Existing methods for the expert selection are mostly based on the individual performance, whereas the task characteristics of CoPS projects and the knowledge correlationship between candidates and CoPS projects are seldom considered. This paper generates a task-oriented method to select experts for CoPS projects in the background of aerospace engineering management. A fuzzy multi-stage approach for the knowledge correlationship measurement is proposed and furthermore an illustrative example is employed for the potential application of this method.

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