A new distributed approach to solve meeting scheduling problems

Proceedings - IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'03

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 588-591

  Hassine, Ahlem Ben ^a   Ito, Takayuki ^b   Ho, Tu Bao ^a  

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

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC CONSISTENCY; DISTRIBUTED APPROACHES; MEETING SCHEDULING; NEW APPROACHES; STATE OF THE ART;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 78649696777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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