A Formal Study of Distributed Meeting Scheduling

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 265-289

  Sen, Sandip ^a   Durfee, Edmund H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete event simulation; Distributed AI; Intelligent agents; Meeting scheduling; Probabilistic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043229460     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008639617029     Document Type: Article

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