Registration Opens
Continental Breakfast
Voting for Lightning Presentations

Introductory Remarks; Gordon Cormack, CEAS 2006 Chair
Sponsors, organizers, conference format

Invited Talk

Rob Thomas, Cyrmu
The Underground Economy

Abuse detection and control

• Dynamic Port 25 Blocking to Control SPAM Zombies; Jonathan Schmidt
• Algorithmically Determining Store-and-Forward MTA Relays Using DomainKeys; Miles Libbey, Peter Ludemann
• Can DNS-Based Blacklists Keep Up with Bots?; Anirudh Ramachandran, David Dagon, Nick Feamster

Break courtesy of      
Catch Up With The Speakers: First 15 Minutes

Counter-Attack

• Spamalot: A Toolkit for Consuming Spammers' Resources; Peter Nelson, Kenneth Dallmeyer, Lucasz Szybalski, Tom Palarz, Michael Wieher
• Breaking Anti-Spam Systems with Parasitic Spam; Morton Swimmer, Ian Whalley, Barry Leiba, Nathaniel Borenstein
• Observed Trends in Spam Construction Techniques: A Case Study of Spam Evolution; Calton Pu, Steve Webb

Learning-based Filters I

• Spam Filtering with Naive Bayes - Which Naive Bayes?; Vangelis Metsis, Ion Androutsopoulos, Georgios Paliouras
• An Adaptive, Semi-Structured Language Model Approach to Spam Filtering on a New Corpus; Ben Medlock

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Catch Up With The Speakers: First 15 Minutes

Email Enhancement

• An Email and Meeting Assistant Using Graph Walks; Einat Minkov, William Cohen
• Email Thread Reassembly Using Similarity Matching; Jen-Yuan Yeh
• "Sorry, I Forgot the Attachment:'' Email Attachment Prediction; Mark Dredze, John Blitzer, Fernando Pereira
• CC Prediction with Graphical Models; Chris Pal

Break
Catch Up With The Speakers: First 15 Minutes

Social behavior

• The Effects of Anti-Spam Methods on Spam Mail; Eilon Solan, Eran Reshef
• Sender Reputation in a Large Webmail Service; Bradley Taylor
• Using E-Mail Social Network Analysis for Detecting Unauthorized Accounts; Adam O'Donnell, Walter Mankowski, Jeff Abrahamson
• An Empirical Study of Clustering Behavior of Spammers and Group-based Anti-Spam Strategies; Fulu Li, Mo-Han Hsieh

Reception
Catch Up With The Speakers: First 15 Minutes
Drinks served

Continental Breakfast

Invited Talk

Hector Garcia-Molina and Zoltan Gyongyi, Stanford
Web Spam: Current Techniques and Future Challenges

Group Discussion

Considering What's Missing — Building a Work List for the Email and Messaging Research Community

Break
Catch Up With The Speakers: First 15 Minutes

Corpora

• Modeling Identity in Archival Collections of Email: A Preliminary Study; Tamer Elsayed, Douglas Oard
• Introducing the Webb Spam Corpus: Using Email Spam to Identify Web Spam Automatically; Steve Webb, James Caverlee, Calton Pu
• Annotating Subsets of the Enron Email Corpus; Jade Goldstein, Andres Kwasinksi, Paul Kingsbury, Roberta Evans Sabin, Albert McDowell
• An Exploratory Study of the W3C Mailing List Test Collection for Retrieval of Emails with Pro/Con Argument; Yejun Wu, Douglas Oard, Ian Soboroff

Lunch
Catch Up With The Speakers: First 15 Minutes

4 Selected Lightning Papers
Based on participant voting

• Dynamic Port Block; Jonathan Schmidt
• Spam -- A Living Thing; Daniel Raduta
• With Authentication comes Reputation; Meng Wong
• Automatic Feature Extraction; Claudiu Musat

Organizational Impact

• Teaching Spam and Spyware at the University of C@1g4ry; John Aycock
• Deployment Experience: Rolling Out a New Antispam Solution in a Large Corporation; Barry Leiba, Jason Crawford
• Using Early Results from the 'spamHINTS' Project to Estimate an ISP Abuse Team's Task; Richard Clayton

Break

Learning-based Filters II

• Batch and Online Spam Filter Comparison; Gordon Cormack and Andrej Bratko
• Learning at Low False Positive Rates; Wen-Tau Yih, Joshua Goodman, Geoff Hulton
• Online Discriminative Spam Filter Training; Joshua Goodman, Wen-tau Yih
• Fast Uncertainty Sampling for Labeling Large E-mail Corpora; Richard Segal, Ted Markowitz, William Arnold