Abstract
Decision making through distributed voting can help automate
routine-like collaborative tasks. In this paper we concentrate on how
distributed voting strategies can be used for scheduling meetings in mobile
and pervasive environments. Our work focuses on optimizing the meeting
scheduling result for each participant in a mobile team by using user-specific
preferences and information available on their devices. This negotiation is
done in a distributed manner directly between the peers. In this paper we
describe different approaches for the decision making strategy involving
voting theory to balance out the different user preferences and
availabilities. The weight of the votes from each participant can also be
adjusted according to their importance or necessity in the given meeting. We
also introduce briefly an approach to support distributed decision making
strategies pervasively using a lightweight Web-based platform. To conclude the
paper, we give our views on the future development directions and evaluation
plans as well as extend the approach for other related domains.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings |
Subtitle of host publication | 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2010 |
Publisher | IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
Pages | 238-243 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4244-6606-1 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4244-6605-4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
Event | 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2010 - Mannheim, Germany Duration: 29 Mar 2010 → 2 Apr 2010 |
Conference
Conference | 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2010 |
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Abbreviated title | PERCOM Workshops 2010 |
Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Mannheim |
Period | 29/03/10 → 2/04/10 |
Keywords
- Distributed systems
- mobile collaboration
- distributed decision making
- voting