Is e-mail obsolete? Far from it. We continue to gather more and more information in our inboxes: personal and professional communications, but also marketing and commercial ads, alerts and notifications from websites or social networks, search engines results, agendas, …

The NextMail’11 workshop will focus on current research and emerging trends in email research. I’m happy to be a part of the program committee for the workshop, which will be held as part of the IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology August 22, 2011 in Lyon, France.

You can read the full Call For Papers for all the details, but relevant topics include:

• Email content analysis, information extraction, summarization
• Email social networks in enterprise
• Email management strategies within organizations
• Adaptative email agents and semantic agents
• Emails archives exploration, visualization, regulations and behaviors
• Email visual interfaces and human/computer interaction with emails
• Case studies, experiments and user studies on emails usages
• Benchmark and email testing datasets
• Interoperability over email with enterprise resources and legacy systems
• Semantic email and email mining
• Unified messaging and web interactions : instant messaging, RSS feeds, annotations, tagging
• Personal information management integration in email clients, pending task management
• Interaction between email , PIM and the mobility factor
• Facing the volume growth, do we need to replace the old protocols?
• Evolution of infrastructures and uses

Papers are due by 21st March 2011, so get writing!