An Active Mail System

Summary: Active mail with intelligent messages (imessages) that run as autonomous programs, converse with recipients, and self-route responses. Prototype and distributed issues—routing, state, and coordination for active email in data-management. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2311
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,535 | 0.62%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602289

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Authors

1. John Hogg (University of Toronto)
2. Stelios Gamvroulas (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hogg_sigmod84,
        title = {{An Active Mail System}},
        author = {Hogg, John and Gamvroulas, Stelios},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602289},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602289},
        year = {1984}
}

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