A Temporal Reasoning based Social Calendar Framework

Electronic calendar has been intensively used in people’s life and work. In recent years it is popularized in the context of social networks, which forced the emergence of social calendar. For social calendar people is not just satisfied with creating, storing and exchanging their schedule data, they wants to use the calendar as a social network app, send invitations on some scheduled events, flexibly define the access rules on their scheduling, and even create event agenda in team manner. This paper describes a framework to answer those requirements. Using the standard interoperaterable calendar data format iCalendar as calendar representation, the framework compiles the event information into an internal network structure, and incorporates a MapReduce consistency algorithm that makes the framework suitable for large scale data processing in social network context.