1. Social Network and Collaborative Task Management in Email
Xiangyu Zhang

2. Outline Introduction to Email Management Problems & Challenges
Social Network Management in
(Collaborative) Task Management
Conclusion
Our Sight
Q&A

3. Introduction to Email Management
is playing a more and more important role in both business and personal communication.
Moreover, people are reinventing systems to accomplish more than just contacting each other.
Overwhelming functionalities overloaded .

4. Problems & Challenges Social Network Management
(Collaborative) Task Management
User Profile Management
Categorization and Organization
Event Extraction
Intelligent Reminding
Cooperation through
File Management

5. Social Network Management
Extract social network information by analyzing communication history.
Source:
Message header
Message history
Mailing list
Social Network affects task management.
Related Work:
Personal Map: Automatically Modeling the User’s Online Social Network
DriftCatcher: The Implicit Social Context of

6. (Collaborative) Task Management
User Profile Management:
User profile is basic to task management and relates to every aspect of task management.
Related Work:
Self-Adaptive User Profiles for Large-Scale Data Delivery
Context-based User Profile Management for Personalized Services

7. (Collaborative) Task Management
Categorization and Organization
Spam detection.
Rule based filter.
Machine learning based on existent s.
Social Network based organization.
Related Work:
An Experimental Framework for Categorization and Management.

8. (Collaborative) Task Management
Event Extraction
This is the throat of task management and also the aspect that gained least success.
Related Work:
Identifying and Understanding Dates and Times in
DriftCatcher: The Implicit Social Context of

9. (Collaborative) Task Management
Intelligent Reminding
This is one of what people expect most from a application.
Reminding is close related to user profile and context.
Lack of enough context in user profile makes reminding rather incomplete.
Related Work:
Active Messenger

10. (Collaborative) Task Management
Cooperation through
Communication leads to cooperation.
But the community hasn’t achieved much on collaborative task management yet.
Related Work:
Supporting Collaborative Task Management in [Steve Whittaker]
TeleNotes and ContactMap
Collaborating within - not through - Users Reinvent a Familiar Technology

11. Conclusion Email is dominating communication in the web age.
Much problems unsolved yet.
management hasn’t get enough attention from the DB community yet.
Still full of challenge and opportunity.

12. Our Sight MIR – Mobile Intelligent Reminder Focus:
Automatic task/event extraction from
Collaborative task management in
Context aware task management in

13. MIR Architecture

14. Q&A