An efficient and privacy-aware meeting scheduling scheme using common computational space

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E90-D, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 656-667

  Huda, Md Nurul ^a   Kamioka, Eiji ^b   Yamada, Shigeki ^b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Constraint; Distributed computing; Mobile agent; Privacy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS (DCSP); EFFICIENT AND PRIVACY-AWARE MEETING SCHEDULING (EPMS); MEETING SCHEDULING (MS); PRIVACY LOSS;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 33947114868     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.3.656     Document Type: Article

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