The Second Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS)
Final Call for Papers
July 21 and 22, 2005 (Thurs,Fri)
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
http://www.ceas.cc
In Cooperation with
The International Association for Cryptologic Research and
The IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy
General Conference Chair: Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research)
Program Co-Chairs:
- Josh Alspector (AOL)
- Tom Fawcett (Stanford Computational Learning Laboratory)
- Andrew McCallum (UMass)
The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) invites the submission of
papers for its second meeting. Papers are invited on all aspects of
email, instant messaging, cell phone text messaging, and voice over
internet protocol (VoIP). This includes spam, spit (spam over
internet telephony), spim (spam over instant messenger), phishing and
identity theft via messaging, viruses, spyware, etc. including
research papers, industry reports, and law and policy papers.
- Research: Computer science oriented academic-style research
- Industry: Descriptions of important or innovative products
- Law, Policy, and Economics: Legal, policy, and economic papers
Research papers include experimental or theoretical, academic-style
papers on all aspects of messaging and abuses, including but not
limited to:
- Techniques for stopping email, VoIP and IM spam, including
- Machine learning techniques
- Postage techniques
- Proof-of-work
- Challenge-response
- Human Interactive Proofs (or CAPTCHAs)
- Disposable email addresses
- Protocols for sender authentication and verification
- Digital signatures
- Proof of group membership
- Role of spam as a malware vector
- Spam traceback
New features for email and messaging systems
- Automatic foldering of email
- Categorizing messages
- Message search
- Clustering messages
- Advanced calendaring and scheduling
- Digital rights management for email and digital messages
- Public Key Infrastructure for messaging
- Discourse, dialog, and summarization for email or messaging.
Industry papers describe products or systems (commercial or open
source) and matters of commercial or practical interest. Papers
claiming excellent results should include good experimental or
theoretical evidence supporting the claims. Example topics include:
- Industry cooperation for stopping messaging abuse
- New standards and interoperability
- For spam, spit, spim filters and authentication
- For calendaring and scheduling
- Public key infrastructure for encryption and identity
- Digital rights management
- New products, especially those with novel features
Legal, policy and financial papers focus on topics such as
- What new laws or social institutions are most appropriate for messaging?
- Legal strategies against spam, phishing, and spyware
- The CAN-SPAM act and potential FTC regulations
- International legal approaches
- What should be done about phishing and other message scams?
- The economics of spam, spim, spit, phishing
- The economic effects of per-message charges (postage)
- Email, IM, VoIP and identity: who should control it?
- Privacy for email, IM, VoIP, and chat
- Messaging in the workplace.
In all three areas, submissions closely related to messaging,
viruses attached to messages, chat rooms, usenet groups, and mailing
lists will be given full consideration.
KEY DATES:
Paper Submission Deadline: March 21 (changed from preliminary call)
Notification of acceptance: May 16
Final camera-ready version of papers: June 16
Conference: July 21 and 22
REQUIREMENTS: Papers may be of one of two types: extended abstracts
(two pages) or full papers (eight pages, including appendices and
bibliography). Work may not have been previously published in any
conference or journal, and simultaneous submissions are not
allowed. The style will be the Morgan-Kaufmann two-column, 8.5 by 11
inch format as specified in the style files available at
http://www.ceas.cc for both submissions and final papers.
Papers will be reviewed by a committee 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.
A call for workshop proposals will follow this call for
papers. Suggestions for panel discussions are also welcome, and should
be sent to the Program Chairs at information@ceas.cc.
CONTACT: information@ceas.cc
(sends mail to the co-chairs.)
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