Negotiation Strategies for Agent-based Meeting Scheduling System
Elhadi Shakshuki, Hsiang-Hwa Koo, Darcy Benoit · 2007
Managing personal meetings and events is a complicated task. It becomes more problematic when a person has numerous meetings or events in their schedule. One of the challenges of managing meetings is to find a proper meeting time when a conflict occurs. This paper presents negotiation strategies for an agent-based meeting scheduling system to automatically solve meeting conflicts. These relieve the user from having to find free meeting times manually. The agent will utilize these negotiation strategies to find an acceptable time slot that best fits the constraints and preferences for its user. A prototype is implemented and demonstrated