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Today's commercial calendar scheduling tools like MS Outlook,
MeetingMaker, and Oracle Calendar, are simply passive tools that
require significant amounts of user attention to schedule
meetings. Tomorrow's calendar schedulers will be much more active,
possessing the capabilities to automatically schedule our meetings,
read and respond to routine email meeting requests, autonomously
negotiate with our colleagues about preferred meeting times, and in
general reduce our cognitive load by eliminating routine scheduling
tasks from conscious consideration. Such "intelligent assistant"
software promises to dramatically increase our daily productivity and
transform personal computing as we know it today.
The CMRADAR project is concerned with developing a prototype
intelligent calendar scheduling system that will investigate many of
the relevant research issues. One of our goals is to build and
demonstrate a calendar scheduler with intelligent capabilities
significantly beyond the state-of-the-art available in today's
commercial products.
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