THE FOURTH CONFERENCE ON EMAIL AND ANTI-SPAM (CEAS 2007)
Thursday August 2nd and Friday August 3rd, 2007 Mountain View, California http://www.ceas.cc
Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS ** Submission Deadline: Mar 23, 2007 **
The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) invites the submission of papers for its fourth meeting. Papers are invited on all aspects of electronic communication including email, instant messaging, text messaging, and voice over internet protocol (VoIP). Topics of interest include novel applications of electronic messaging, abatement of abuses of electronic messaging, spam, spit (spam over internet telephony), spim (spam over instant messenger), phishing, identity theft via messaging, viruses, and spyware.
Paper submissions can be either research papers, industry reports, or law and policy papers. Submissions from practitioners and vendors are encouraged. Papers will be selected by peer review for presentation at CEAS 2007. Papers will be reviewed based on their contribution to the literature.
SUGGESTED TOPICS:
* Message filtering, blocking, authentication - Machine learning - Natural language processing - Challenge-response - Payment schemes - Disposable addresses - Messaging protocols - Digital signatures
* Evaluation - corpus and benchmark creation - measures and methodologies - tests of specific methods or products
* Analysis - Economics of spam, spit, spim, phishing, etc. - abuse tactics and patterns - legitimate use patterns - historical data
* Message organization and search - Advanced calendaring and scheduling - automatic foldering - categorization - summarization - search
* Systems and network issues - performance & scalability - reliability & security - archival & retrieval
* User issues - user interfaces - usability studies - messaging in support of user activities
* Social issues - deducing social phenomena - costs and benefits of messaging use and abuse - other social impacts
* Industry - Cooperation for stopping abuse - Messaging and abuse reporting standards - Interoperability
* Legal issues - spam, spit, spim and phishing, etc. - identity theft - privacy - freedom of speech - digital rights management
KEY DATES:
* Paper submission deadline: Mar 23, 2007 * Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2007 * Final camera-ready version of papers: June 11, 2007 * Conference: August 2nd and 3rd, 2007
REQUIREMENTS:
Papers may be of one of two types: short papers (two pages plus bibliography) or full papers (eight pages plus bibliography). Work may not have been previously published in, or under consideration for publication in any other conference or journal. Work that has been summarily reported on-line, or in technical reports or workshops, may be the basis of a CEAS submission provided that presentation and publication by CEAS would be unencumbered by prior copyright assignment.
Submissions must use the CEAS electronic system (to be announced). The style for submissions and final papers is a two-column, 8.5 by 11 inch format. See http://www.ceas.cc/2007/format.htm for details.
Papers will be reviewed by a committee of experts from academic and industrial research centers. Accepted papers will be made freely available on the web, and will be published on CD-ROM. Authors will retain copyright of their work.
CONTACT:
* The conference chair and co-chairs can be reached at information@ceas.cc
GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR:
* Calton Pu Georgia Institute of Technology http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/%7Ecalton/
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
* Kang Li University of Georgia http://www.cs.uga.edu/%7Ekangli/
* Richard Segal IBM Research http://www.research.ibm.com/people/r/rsegal
INDUSTRY CO-CHAIR:
* Paul Judge Secure Computing http://www.securecomputing.com/corp_executives.cfm?Person=67
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