Agent-based approach to dynamic meeting scheduling problems

Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1132-1139

  Hassine, Ahlem Ben ^a   Défago, Xavier ^a,b   Ho, Tu Bao ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

ARC CONSISTENCY; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT; DYNAMIC MEETING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544335698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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