Title
How to Fit In Another Meeting.
Abstract
We are studying the problem of determining suitable meeting times and locations for a group of participants wishing to schedule a new meeting subject to already scheduled meetings possibly held at a number of different locations. Each participant must be able to reach the new meeting location, attend for the entire duration, and reach the next meeting location on time. In particular, we give a solution to the problem instance where each participant has two scheduled meetings separated by a free time interval. For a geometric model, where n participants can travel along straight paths in the Euclidean plane, we present an O(n log n) algorithm to determine the longest meeting duration and a location suitable to all participants. In a graph-based model, transportation is provided by a geometric network over m nodes and e edges in the plane. Participants can have individual weights. Moreover, there can be k groups of participants, such that only one member of each group must attend the meeting. In this model, a location for a meeting of longest possible duration can be determined in time O (en alpha (k) log k + n log n + mn log m), where alpha (k) denotes the extremely slowly growing inverse Ackermann function.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361843
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Keywords
Field
DocType
scheduling,geometric model,geometric network,computational geometry,euclidean plane,graph theory,computational complexity,commerce
Graph theory,Graph,Ackermann function,Combinatorics,Computer science,Computational geometry,Computer network,Geometric networks,Artificial intelligence,Time complexity,Computational complexity theory
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rolf Klein114316.94
Doron Nussbaum28913.49
Jörg-Rüdiger Sack31099166.07
Jiehua Yi4171.98