The Agent allows users to:
The Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Agent provides interoperability between RDF based calendar descriptions on the web, and Personal Information Manager (PIM) Systems such as Microsoft's Outlook. Schedules and events can be described on the web in RDF, using existing ontologies such as the Hybrid iCal-like RDF Schema or the Dublin Core ontology, and linked to individual's contact information described, for example, at their home page. The Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Agent, consists of a Distributed Meeting Scheduling Engine and the RETSINA Semantic Web Calendar Parser. The agent assists in organising and scheduling meetings between several individuals, and coordinates these based on existing schedules maintained by MS Outlook.
The Agent allows users to:
A PowerPoint presentation is available that describes the Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Parser and outlines some of our project goals.
Semantic Web Schedules have many uses - for example, marking up Conference Schedules at a Web Site (eg the Semantic Web Working Symposium), or publishing Seminar Series or Class Schedules. Several Conference Schedules have been (or are being) developed to date:
| http://www.daml.ri.cmu.eduprojects/RDFCalendar/2001-ThreeRiversFestival.rdf | |
| FOIS01 Conference | http://www.daml.ri.cmu.eduprojects/RDFCalendar/FOIS01-Schedule.rdf |
| Trading Agent Competition Workshop | http://www.daml.ri.cmu.eduprojects/RDFCalendar/TAC01-Schedule.rdf |
| WI 01 Conference (in progress) | http://www.daml.ri.cmu.eduprojects/RDFCalendar/WI01-Schedule.rdf |
| SWWS Workshop Day 1 | http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/06/content/swws2001-07-30.rdf |
| SWWS Workshop Day 2 | http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/06/content/swws2001-07-31.rdf |
| SWWS Workshop Day 3 | http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/06/content/swws2001-08-01.rdf |
Other calendar schedule examples are also available. For more information about the RDF Calendar task force, visit http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/04/calendar/.
This section demonstrates how the agent can be invoked remotely (Under Construction...)
Note, for both operations (above) you should be registered with the ANS, and enable the import and browse settings under the Options - General tab. See the help pages for details
The Retsina Calendar Agent provides support for distributed meeting scheduling,
by autonomously requesting and comparing available meeting slots from each attendee's
calendar agent, and determining the optimal meeting slot for all attendees. Each agent
has access to it's user's schedule defined within Outlook 2000, and on request, confirms
which of the proposed meeting slots the user could attend. These replies are then
sent to the proposer agent, which then determines the best meeting slot, and replies
with the final meeting schedule, which is inserted into each user's Outlook schedule
and marked as tentative.
The Retsina Calendar Agent allows users to:
The Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Parser works synergistically with the Retsina Calendar Agent, by providing the agent with schedules posted on the Semantic Web and idetifying the contact details of the attendees at the posted meetings.
We are hosting a Retsina Agent Name Server on host www.daml.ri.cmu.edu at port 6677. This ANS provides a white-pages registry for agent name lookup. There are plans to extend calendar agent discovery in later versions using capability description languages such as LARKS and DAML-S.
The Electronic Secretary is a web based
interface to a distributed Meeting Scheduling Agent, that negotiates meeting
requests with an RCal agent. By clicking on the E-Secretary icon opposite, you
can schedule meetings with 'DAMLUser', a fictitious user currently running the
RCal Agent at CMU.
For questions and comments, please write to nospam-retsina@cs.cmu.edu [remove 'nospam'].
These tools were developed as research prototypes and hence are available "as-is" with no warranty of any kind, express or implied
The RETSINA Calendar Agent runs on Windows 2000 and Windows XP and requires MS outlook 2000 or Outlook XP.