NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES IN DISTRIBUTED MEETING SCHEDULING USING MOBILE AGENTS

Abstract

Distributed meeting scheduling can cause a problem using simple contract net protocol. We design a distributed meeting scheduling systems using mobile agent and propose negotiating strategies of the agents in order to relieve the problem. but introducing negotiating efficiency of scheduling. In order to find ways of decreasing the number of negotiations, we conducted experiments on such negotiation strategies as random, minimum-member, shortest meeting length, and the lowest prefernece respectively and found that the shortest meeting length strategy would usually achieve meeting scheduling with less number fo negotiations.