SIMULATION OF IMPACT OF RESOURCE COMPETITION ON SHARED RESOURCE UTILISATION

Abstract

This study aims to address the problem that the uncontrolled business response process of resource-matching platforms (RMPs), which leads to resource competition. The system dynamics (SD) is applied to obtain optimisation policy of the platform's resource utilisation from a production system. The business transaction system of RMPs is considered as a complex social and economic system. Then the SD simulation model of the business response process of RMPs is established, for which the success rate of demander response and resource utilisation are used as observation indices. Simulations of influencing factors were conducted from the perspective of platform controllability. It is indicated that the decision attributes especially the expected profit and the resource distribution have impacts on the user response, transaction success rate and the resource utilisation; and the influence of decision distribution is more obvious than that of decision attributes. An improvement in each of these factors can promote the response success rate and resource utilisation. These conclusions provide guidance for the coordination of resource competition and resource scheduling of the platforms.