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Social networks, religion and culture of human beings play a major role in the day-to-day activities performed by each individual in group oriented missions. The aggregation and inertia in the group are typically important to achieve the goal. A leader being the most dominant and knowledgeable, with leadership qualities, steers movements, thought processes, and actions of the individuals of his/her group. However the psychology of each individual is unique. This complex behavior is often observed in the software development projects, where the cognitive attributes and contribution of programmer’s mind are some of the important features to develop a project. This paper proposes a model for the behavior of programmers (software developers) in a development project by incorporating fuzzy logic as a tool. The implication of this model also assists in gaining substantial information about the learning environment of the programmer during the actual implementation and post session o f the project and at the same time also helps to evolve the concept of Virtual Project Leader (VPL) for similar projects.
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Banerjee, S., Abraham, A., Han, S.Y., Mahanti, P.K. (2005). Soft Modeling of Group Dynamics and Behavioral Attributes. In: Abraham, A., Dote, Y., Furuhashi, T., Köppen, M., Ohuchi, A., Ohsawa, Y. (eds) Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32391-0_18
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