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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

2nd International Workshop on

Defence against Spam in Electronic Communication

DaSECo ‘10

 

In conjunction with

DEXA ‘10

www.dexa.org

 

August 30- September 3, 2010

 

Bilbao, Spain

 

The workshop on Defence against Spam in Electronic Communication invites the submission of papers.

Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to submit papers on all aspects of misuse and protection concerning electronic communication including email, instant messaging, text messaging, and voice over internet protocol. 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), spom (spam over mobile phone), phishing, identity theft via messaging, viruses, and spyware.

 

Paper submissions can be either research papers, extended abstracts, industry reports, or law and policy papers. Submissions from practitioners and vendors are encouraged.

 

Suggested Topics:

 

 

Message filtering, blocking, authentication

-          machine learning

-          natural language processing

-          adversarial learning

-          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, spom, phishing, etc.

-          abuse tactics and patterns

-          legitimate use patterns

-          historical data

 

 

Social issues

-          deducing social networks

-          costs and benefits of messaging use and abuse

-          other social impacts

 

Industry

-          cooperation for stopping abuse

-          messaging and abuse reporting standards

-          interoperability

-          self-defending networks

 

Legal issues

-          spam, spit, spim, spom and phishing, etc.,

-          identity theft

-          privacy

-          freedom of speech

-          digital rights management

-          forensics and data retention

 

Technical aspects

-          indexing and efficiency in spam recognition

-          spam compression and duplicate recognition

 

Workshop Chairperson:

Paul Gardner-Stephen, Flinders University, Australia

 

International Programme Committee:

Annalisa Appice, University of Bari, Italy

Oscar Boykin, University of Florida, USA

Carlos Castillo, University Barcelona, Spain

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy

Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA

Tobias Eggendorfer, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany

Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria

Paul Gardner-Stephen, Flinders University, Australia

Christian Gorecki, University of Mannheim, Germany

Edward Hung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Christopher Lueg, University of Tasmania, Australia

Mohammad F. Mahmood, Howard University. USA

Cedric du Mouza, CNAM, France

Jose A. Onieva, University of Malaga, Spain

Jon Praed, Inter Law Group, USA

Rodrigo Román, University of Malga, Spain

Guido Schryen, University of Freiburg, Germany

Alexander K. Seewald, Seewald Solutions, Austria

Xu Jeffrey Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Rushian Zhang, University of Helsinki, Finand

 

 

                        IMPORTANT DATES

 

* Submission of full papers:            March 30, 2010

* Notification of acceptance:          April  20, 2010

* Camera-ready copies due:            May  15, 2010

 

Paper Submission Details:

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English.

• The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings.
• Papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE format (http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html)
• Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from formatting requirements may be rejected without review.

 

For paper registration and electronic submission see http://www.dexa.org starting in February 2010.

 

Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Authors are requested to submit their paper electronically before March 30, 2010.

 

Duplicate submissions are not allowed and will automatically be rejected without further review. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if, at any time during the time when the submission is under consideration, there is another paper with the following properties:

1. the main technical content of the paper substantially overlaps that of the submission to another conference, or
2. the paper is published or under consideration for publication in a refereed journal or proceedings (electronic or printed) that is generally available (e.g., not limited to conference attendees).

Authors do with their submission automatically agree to the following terms:
"I understand that the paper being submitted must not overlap substantially with any other paper that I am a sole author or co-author of and that is currently submitted elsewhere. Furthermore, previously published papers with any overlap are cited prominently in this submission."
All accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings of DEXA’10 Workshops with IEEE CS Press.

Questions about this policy or how it applies to your work should be directed to the conference chairs.

For further inquiries, please contact the Conference Organisation Office (gabriela@dexa.org)