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ECAI
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Scheduling Meetings Using Distributed Valued Constraint Satisfaction Algorithm
Abstract. Scheduling meetings is generally difficult in that it attempts to satisfy the preferences of all participants. However, all participants can agree to a schedule in which...
Takuo Tsuruta, Toramatsu Shintani
MAGS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Retractable contract network for empowerment in workforce scheduling
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
IDC
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Cost of Cooperation for Scheduling Meetings
Scheduling meetings among agents can be represented as a game - the Meetings Scheduling Game (MSG). In its simplest form, the two-person MSG is shown to have a price of anarchy (Po...
Alon Grubshtein, Amnon Meisels
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A preliminary result on a representative-based multi-round protocol for multi-issue negotiations
Multi-issue negotiation protocols represent a promising field since most negotiation problems in the real world involve multiple issues. Our work focuses on negotiation with inte...
Katsuhide Fujita, Takayuki Ito, Mark Klein
PATAT
2004
Springer
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14 years 24 days ago
Learning User Preferences in Distributed Calendar Scheduling
Abstract. Within the field of software agents, there has been increasing interest in automating the process of calendar scheduling in recent years. Calendar (or meeting) schedulin...
Jean Oh, Stephen F. Smith