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Personal assistant agents have long promised to automate routine everyday tasks in order to reduce the cognitive load on humans. One such routine task is the management of a user’s calendar. In this paper, we describe CMRadar, a calendar management system that is a significant step towards achieving the enduring vision of assistant agents. CMRadar is an implemented system with wide-ranging capabilities for supporting email exchange, multiagent negotiations and schedule optimization based on user preferences. The motivation is to develop an end-to-end system for use by real users to obtain data to facilitate learning. Having now completed an initial prototype which we believe is the first end-to-end agent for calendar management, we present as contributions our architecture design, the communication language used to tie system components together, and initial simulation experiments that isolate negotiation cost a key factor to be logged and predicted in order to improve performance.
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Modi, P.J., Veloso, M., Smith, S.F., Oh, J. (2005). CMRadar: A Personal Assistant Agent for Calendar Management. In: Bresciani, P., Giorgini, P., Henderson-Sellers, B., Low, G., Winikoff, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Information Systems II. AOIS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3508. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11426714_12
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