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A Type-2 FML-Based Meeting Scheduling Support System

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On the Power of Fuzzy Markup Language

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 296))

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Scheduling meetings in organizations involves many considerations such as scheduling conflicts and even personal preferences. The host of an organizational meeting typically expends substantial time conferring with potential attendees to determine the optimal time slot. To minimize the time and effort required for this scheduling process, this chapter introduces a novel type-2 FML-based personal ontology, a type-2 meeting scheduling ontology, and a decision supported system. The Fuzzy markup language (FML) is also used to describe the knowledge base and rule base of the proposed meeting scheduling system, and a fuzzy inference mechanism is then used to infer the probability of attendance for each potential attendee. Finally, the system generates a semantic description that indicates the estimated probability of attendance for each potential attendee. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is feasible for meeting scheduling.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National University of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan

    Chang-Shing Lee, Mei-Hui Wang, Ming-Kai Su & Min-Hsiang Wu

  2. The Computational Intelligence Centre, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Essex, UK

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Lee, CS., Wang, MH., Su, MK., Wu, MH., Hagras, H. (2013). A Type-2 FML-Based Meeting Scheduling Support System. In: Acampora, G., Loia, V., Lee, CS., Wang, MH. (eds) On the Power of Fuzzy Markup Language. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 296. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35488-5_10

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