AN APPROACH TO FILTER VIP EMAILS USING DYNAMIC WEIGHT ASSIGNMENTTECHNIQUE

Abstract

In the present era, email is one of the most popular, fastest and cheapest tools ofcommunication. It is used to exchange information among organizations, friends and relatives. Alongwith several benefits, this mode of communication has a number of problematic things attached to it.These problems include unwanted messages that a user has to receive in his inbox and lack ofautomation embedded into the email client applications to categories the emails into various labels.Tremendous work has been done to tackle unsolicited emails, but to the best of our knowledge, verylittle effort has been contributed to filter VIP emails, which may be very significant to business users,decision makers or policy makers. In this paper an approach has been proposed to filter VIP emailsusing dynamic weight assignment technique. The proposed technique monitors attitude, habits andbehavior of the user, sequence of opening the emails and ultimately assigns a weight to emails. Whenthis weight reaches to a pre-defined limit, declares the email as VIP. An algorithm to filter VIP emailsis also proposed. To validate the proposed technique, Intra Organization Mailing Application ispresented.