DiSEN-AlocaHR: A multi-agent mechanism for human resources allocation in a distributed software development environment

Abstract

The success or failure of a project is directly related to individual talent of the participants and, most important, how they are assigned to the tasks in a project. This paper presents a context-aware multi-agent mechanism to support the human resource allocation in globally distributed software projects. This mechanism performs the human resource allocation to tasks of a project taking into account the participants contextual information, the requirements of the tasks and the interpersonal relationship among the human resources. The participants contextual information includes culture, idiom, temporal distance and previous experience. The mechanism is composed by three elements: (i) capture and inference of information, (ii), validation and consolidation of knowledge, and (iii) human resources allocation. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.