Design and implementation of conference scheduling and voting facilities for a multi-media conferencing system

Author

Ng, Jim M. ; Chan, Edward ; Lam, L.M.

Author_Institution

City Polytech. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

fYear

1994

fDate

9-11 Nov 1994

Firstpage

221

Abstract

The design and implementation of a meeting scheduler for a multimedia conferencing system is described in this paper. Participants can schedule meetings automatically, using the scheduler or through the process of voting. The scheduling algorithm is an enhanced version of Sugihara et al´s (1989) timetable rearrangement heuristic. The modification consists of adding the notion of private meetings, eliminating the requirement for predefined groups, and the provision of priority levels. The voting manager uses the preference voting algorithm to determine the user´s preference

Keywords

computer communications software; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; scheduling; teleconferencing; conference scheduling algorithm; meeting scheduler; multimedia conferencing system; preference voting algorithm; priority levels; private meetings; timetable rearrangement heuristic; user´s preference; voting facilities; voting manager; Calendars; Cities and towns; Heart; Heuristic algorithms; Kernel; Meetings; Multimedia systems; Scheduling algorithm; User interfaces; Voting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1994. COMPSAC 94. Proceedings., Eighteenth Annual International

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6705-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1994.342802

Filename

342802