A Concise Review on Multiagent Teams: Contributions and Research Opportunities.

The composition and formation of effective teams is crucial for both companies, to assure their competitiveness, and for a broad range of emerging applications exploiting multiagent collaboration (e.g. human-agent teamwork, crowdsourcing). The aim of this article is to provide an integrative perspective on team composition, team formation and their relationship with team performance. Thus, we review and classify the contributions in the computer science literature dealing with these topics. Our purpose is twofold. First, we intend to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the contributions made so far. Second, we pursue to identify research gaps and opportunities. Given the volume of the existing literature, our review is not intended to be exhaustive. Instead, we focus on the most recent contributions that broke new ground to spur innovative research.