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DiSEN-AlocaHR: A Multi-Agent Mechanism for Human Resources Allocation in a Distributed Software Development Environment

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Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 11th International Conference

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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.

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  1. Informatics Department, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

    Lucas O. Teixeira & Elisa H. M. Huzita

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

    Sigeru Omatu

  2. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Hugues Bersini

  3. Dept. of Computing Science and Control Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

  4. Department of Computing Science and Control, Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Sara Rodríguez

  5. Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Paweł Pawlewski

  6. Dep. PPEQS, Section of Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Edgardo Bucciarelli

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Teixeira, L.O., Huzita, E.H.M. (2014). DiSEN-AlocaHR: A Multi-Agent Mechanism for Human Resources Allocation in a Distributed Software Development Environment. In: Omatu, S., Bersini, H., Corchado, J., Rodríguez, S., Pawlewski, P., Bucciarelli, E. (eds) Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 11th International Conference. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 290. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07593-8_27

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