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[Asrg] Preliminary CFP - Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) 2007 (fwd)

2006-12-15 14:07:52
The CEAS conferences have consistently been good. If you have something technical and interesting to say about spam or about other email topics, please send in a paper.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for 
Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

---------- Forwarded message ----------

        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(_at_)ceas(_dot_)cc


    GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR:

    * Calton Pu
      Georgia Institute of Technology
      http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~calton/


    PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:

    * Kang Li
      University of Georgia
      http://www.cs.uga.edu/~kangli/

    * 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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