¹Department of Wood and Furniture Design and Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Karditsa, V. Griva 11, 431 00. Greece.
²Institute of Research and Technology of Thessaly, Centre for Research and Technology, Dimitriados 95 & Pavlou Mela, Volos, 383 33, Greece.
³Dept. of Business Administration, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Larissa, 411 10, Greece.

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Abstract—This paper introduces a model for supporting human resource allocation decisions in software development projects. The model’s underlying allocation method is based on an extension of the bio-inspired response threshold model and takes into account various aspects of the human resource allocation problem, such as the skills of available human resources, activity-related skill requirements as well as social ties/relationships among involved human resources. The model is demonstrated using an exemplar case problem concerning human resource allocation to a set of software development tasks.

Index Terms—Human resource allocation, software project management, social networks, bio-inspired methods, response-threshold model.

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Cite: Anthony Karageorgos, Elli Rapti, Vassilis C. Gerogiannis, "Resource Allocation in Software Projects Using a Bio-inspired Model," Journal of Software vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 1351-1358, 2015.