The composition and formation of effective teams: computer science meets organizational psychology

This work is supported by projects CollectiveMind (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, under grant number TEC2013-49430- EXP), Collectiveware (TIN2015-66863-C2-1-R MINECO/ FEDER), 2017 SGR 172, and MILESS (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad) TIN2013-45039-P Financed by FEDER. The first author is supported by an Industrial PhD scholarship from the Generalitat de Catalunya (DI-060).

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