A MULTIAGENT APPROACH TO A DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM

More and more people are engaging in cooperative team activities over worldwide networks such as the Internet. The multi-agent technology is a framework suitable for constructing distributed applications to sup port these activities. Systems based on this framework have the necess ary autonomy, independency, flexibility, and extensibility. We have fo cussed on the distributed schedule management, which is a typical appl ication of the multi-agent technology We have developed a system, Inte lliDiary, based on this framework to show how the framework is used an d how the characteristics of the framework enhance the functions of di stributed applications.