A markov decision-based meeting scheduling mechanism for automatic secretary system using internet and smart-agent technologies (ASSIST)

Irene S.K. Ho; Chun Bun Henry Chan

A markov decision-based meeting scheduling mechanism for automatic secretary system using internet and smart-agent technologies (ASSIST)

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Abstract

This paper presents an automatic secretary system called ASSIST (Automatic Secretary System using Internet and Smart-agent Technologies), which provides basic secretarial services, particularly meeting scheduling. We formulate a meeting scheduling problem based on a Markov decision model. The backward induction algorithm is used to determine the optimal policy (i.e., the optimal number of time slots for scheduling purposes). The analytical results are presented to show the system's behavior.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4552-4559
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Volume	5
Publication status	Published - 24 Nov 2003
Event	System Security and Assurance - Washington, DC, United States Duration: 5 Oct 2003 → 8 Oct 2003

Keywords

Automatic secretary
Meeting scheduling
Software agents

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Hardware and Architecture

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In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 5, 24.11.2003, p. 4552-4559.

Research output: Journal article publication › Conference article › Academic research › peer-review

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