Multi-Agent-based Approach for Meeting Scheduling System

In this paper, a meeting scheduling system based on mobile agent technology is proposed. The users of the system do not need to input all of their schedules unlike the existing groupwares. When a user intends to call a meeting, he only inputs information about the meeting. On behalf of the inviter, mobile agents move around each invited user´s computer to ask whether he can join the meeting and negotiate with him if necessary. Therefore, the inviter´s work becomes less compared with using the existing groupwares. We have developed the system with our mobile agent framework on Java platform and confirmed its effectiveness through experiments