CMRadar: A Personal Assistant Agent for Calendar Management

Abstract. Personal assistant agents have long promised to automate routine everyday tasks in order to reduce the cognitive load on humans. One such routine task is the management of a user's calendar. In this paper, we describe CMRadar, a calendar management system that is a significant step towards achieving the enduring vision of assistant agents. CMRadar is an implemented system with wideranging capabilities for supporting email exchange, multiagent negotiations and schedule optimization based on user preferences. The motivation is to develop an end-to-end system for use by real users to obtain data to facilitate learning. Having now completed an initial prototype which we believe is the first endto-end agent for calendar management, we present as contributions our architecture design, the communication language used to tie system components together, and initial simulation experiments that isolate negotiation cost a key factor to be logged and predicted in order to improve per...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Pragnesh Jay Modi, Manuela M. Veloso, Stephen F. Smith, Jean Oh
• Keywords: AAAI 2004, Assistant Agents, Calendar Management, Intelligent Agents, Routine Everyday Tasks