Multi-Agent Meeting Scheduling: Preliminary Experimental Results

We view meeting scheduling as a distributed task where each agent knows its user's preferences and calendar availability in order to act on behalf of its user. Although we mayhave some intuitions about how some parameters could a ect the meeting scheduling e ciency and meeting quality, we run several experiments in order to explore the tradeo s between di erent parameters. Our experiments show how the calendar and preference privacy a ect the e ciency and the meeting joint quality under di erent experimental scenarios. The results show how the meeting scheduling performance is more stable and constant when agents try to keep their calendar and preference information private. We believe that these parameters play akey role in the distributed meeting scheduling task, specially if we are interested in building distributed systems with truly autonomous and independent agents where there is not a xed control agent