Email classification and prioritization expert systems have the potential to automatically group emails and users as communities based on their communication patterns, which is one of the most tedious tasks. The exchange of emails among users along with the time and content information determine the pattern of communication. The intelligent systems extract these patterns from an email corpus of...

This paper describes GroupBanter, a tool for supporting serendipitous group conversations using instant messaging. We investigated the potential of ephemeral group conversations by providing awareness of friends’ IM conversations, serving as an implicit invitation to join a group conversation. We present our vision and describe our prototype system. Results from two field studies carried out in...

Reliable group communication is an important technology for building fault-tolerant applications. Yet, some of the major frameworks for distributed application development (e.g., Corba, Jini and Enterprise JavaBeans) lack support for this paradigm. We claim that this situation constitutes a major obstacle to a broader diffusion of reliable group communication in industrial applications. In this...

Electronic mail has become the most widely used business productivity application. However, people increasingly feel frustrated by their email. They are overwhelmed by the volume, lose important items, and feel pressure to respond quickly. Though email usage has changed, our email clients largely have not. Over the past several years, our research group, in conjunction with the Lotus Software g...

Bobby Vandalore, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Raj Jain, Rohit Goyal, Sonia Fahmy The Ohio State University, Department of CIS Columbus, OH 43210-1277 Phone: 614-688-4482, Fax: 614-292-2911 Email: fvandalor, shivkuma, jain, goyal, [email protected] Seong-Cheol Kim Principal Engineer, Network Research Group, Communication Systems R&D Center Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Chung-Ang Newspaper Bld...