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Utilization of IT professionals in software firms is an important problem in which vagueness is a very common factor. Most of these problems are multiobjective in nature and contain a large number of binary decision variables. In this work, a mathematical model is developed for allocating different categories of IT professionals, according to the requirement of various consultancy projects, as a binary fuzzy multiobjective programming problem. The considered objectives are effort maximization at all phases for executing the projects, and overall cost minimization of the firm. A binary fuzzy goal programming technique is applied to find the solution of the problem. A case example is presented based on the data collected from a software firm located at the Electronic Complex of Salt Lake, Sector-V, Kolkata, India and the effectiveness of the technique is demonstrated.
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The authors would like to thank Mr. R. N. Das, Project Leader, Dynamic Digital Technology Private Limited, Electronics Complex, Salt Lake, Sec-V, Kolkata-700091, India, for his support in this work.
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Jana, R.K., Sanyal, M.K., Saikat Chakrabarti (2017). Binary Fuzzy Goal Programming for Effective Utilization of IT Professionals. In: Mandal, J., Satapathy, S., Sanyal, M., Bhateja, V. (eds) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 458. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2035-3_40
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