In this note, we summarize our research interests in the general area of integrating planning capabilities into scheduling technologies. Our recent work has focused on the development of an agent-based calendar scheduling system, where intelligent agents schedule meetings on behalf of busy users. In accomplishing this task, the principal objective to date has been to schedule meetings in a way ...

Ordinal-scale items—say items that assess agreement with a proposition on an ordinal rating scale from strongly disagree to agree—are exceedingly popular in psychological research. A common research question concerns the comparison of response distributions ordinal-scale across conditions. In this context, there is often lingering whether metric-level descriptions results and parametric tests a...