Optimizing agent-based meeting scheduling through preference estimation

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 16, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 727-743

  Chun, Andy ^a   Wai, Hon ^a   Wong, Rebecca Y M ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Agent based negotiation; Distributed scheduling; Meeting scheduling; Software agents; User preference modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

CONFLICT ESTIMATION; DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING; USER PREFERENCE MODELING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0347526072     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2003.09.009     Document Type: Article

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