Optimizing user preferences while scheduling meetings

ICEIS 2001 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 459-465

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

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Meeting scheduling; Negotiation; Preference modeling and office automation; Software agent

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OFFICE AUTOMATION; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; MEETING SCHEDULING; NEGOTIATION; PREFERENCE LEVEL; PREFERENCE MODELING; SCHEDULING PROCESS; SOFTWARE AGENT ARCHITECTURE; USER PREFERENCE MODELING;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 84973594567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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