PTIME: Personalized assistance for calendaring

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Berry, Pauline M ^a   Gervasio, Melinda ^a   Peintner, Bart ^a   Yorke Smith, Neil ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Calendaring; Machine learning; Personal assistant agents; Preference modeling

Indexed keywords

CALENDARING; COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE; CONSTRAINT REASONING; MACHINE-LEARNING; MULTIFACETED EVALUATION; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; PERSONAL ASSISTANT AGENTS; PREFERENCE MODELING; TECHNICAL ADVANCES; TIME MANAGEMENT;

LEARNING SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79960775941     PISSN: 21576904     EISSN: 21576912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1989734.1989744     Document Type: Review

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