Publication Details

Conflict Negotiation Among Personal Calendar Agents

by Berry, P. M. and Albright, C. and Bowring, E. and Conley, K. and Nitz, K. and Pearce, J. P. and Peintner, B. and Saadati, S. and Tambe, M. and Uribe, T. and Yorke-Smith, N.

in Proceedings of AAMAS’06 Demonstration Track pp. 1564–1571,

Abstract

This paper reports on our ongoing practical experience designing, implementing, and deploying PTIME, a personalized agent for time management and meeting scheduling in an open, multi-agent environment. In developing PTIME as part of a larger assistive agent called CALO, we have faced numerous challenges, including usability, multi-agent coordination, scalable constraint reasoning, robust execution, and unobtrusive learning. Our research efforts provide basic solutions to the fundamental problems; however, integrating PTIME into a deployed system has raised other important issues for the successful adoption of new technology. As a personal assistant, PTIME must integrate easily into a user’s real environment, support her normal workflow, respect her authority and privacy, provide natural user interfaces, and handle the issues that arise with deploying such a system in an open environment.

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Associated Projects

Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes As part of DARPA’s Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) program, SRI and team members are working on developing a next-generation "Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes" (CALO).

AIC Personnel

	Name	Title	E-mail
	Berry, Pauline M	Alumnus
	Conley, Kenneth W	Alumnus
	Nitz, Ken	SR. Software Engineer
	Peintner, Bart	Computer Scientist
	Saadati, Shahin	Software Engineer
	Uribe, Tomas E	Computer Scientist
	Yorke-Smith, Neil	Computer Scientist