Agent-based meeting scheduling support using mobile clients

In this paper, we present a distributed multi-agent meeting scheduling system for mobile devices. This mobile agent system supports people on the move to locate feasible time slots to meet with each other, using their mobile devices. It negotiates the best suitable times integrating timetables and time preferences from the participants. Unlike to current approaches, the negotiation of the meeting time is fully executed on mobile devices. As mobile devices are limited in resources, the introduced protocol additionally allows, to out-source the main part of the negotiation to a self-contained scheduling service.