AN AUTOMATIC MEETING SCHEDULING FOR MOBILE USERS

Behrad Assadian, Simon Case, Fang Wang

2004

Abstract

Emerging mobile computing technologies have increasingly enhanced the ability of people and organisations to work in collaboration at different locations and even on the move. By using various handheld devices such as PDAs, mobile phones, and electronic pens, remote and mobile people can flexibly exchange text and multimedia information with each other, and virtually work together as a cohesive group independent of time and location (constraints). Effective mobile collaboration requires reliable communication methods to connect people. More importantly, in-time, on-demand meeting scheduling design is necessary so as to bring fixed or mobile people together to discuss collective activities, such as planning of group work and allocation of resources whenever requested. As people usually have different availability and time arrangement preferences, quickly identifying preferable scheduling solutions for a group of people with heterogeneous and sometimes conflicting requirements is a challenge.

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in Harvard Style

Assadian B., Case S. and Wang F. (2004). AN AUTOMATIC MEETING SCHEDULING FOR MOBILE USERS . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2004) ISBN 972-8865-02-3, pages 119-126. DOI: 10.5220/0002657701190126


in Bibtex Style

@conference{wis04,
author={Behrad Assadian and Simon Case and Fang Wang},
title={AN AUTOMATIC MEETING SCHEDULING FOR MOBILE USERS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={119-126},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002657701190126},
isbn={972-8865-02-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2004)
TI - AN AUTOMATIC MEETING SCHEDULING FOR MOBILE USERS
SN - 972-8865-02-3
AU - Assadian B.
AU - Case S.
AU - Wang F.
PY - 2004
SP - 119
EP - 126
DO - 10.5220/0002657701190126