Evaluating a P2P human-resource sharing platform by multi-agent simulation

Abstract

Because in many SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), the amount of work largely fluctuates, it isdifficult to secure human resources in keeping with the changing environment. While in busy periods, workers may notfinish all the work, in idle periods, they may not have enough work to do. In order to adjust to the fluctuating workload,there are various employment methods such as temporary staff services and outsourcing workforce and services. However,it is very important to make effective use of regular employees. The aim of this paper is to level out the working hours ofworkers and introduce a new inter-company P2P (Peer to Peer) human-resource sharing platform where companies duringtheir idle periods can offer their employees to companies in their busy periods using an automated negotiation technology.The effectiveness of this new platform will be evaluated and verified using multi-agent simulation.