Thursday, August 2, 2007

8:00 am

Registration Opens
Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Introductory Remarks;

9:10 am

Invited Talk: Postfix Lessons Learned (by Wietse Venema) (slides)

10:10 am

Break

10:30 am

Introduction to Live Spam Challenge

10:45 am

Image Spam (session chair:Aleksander Kolcz)

• Learning Fast Classifiers for Image Spam; Mark Dredze, Reuven Gevaryahu, Ari Elias-Bachrach, (University of Pennsylvania)

• Filtering Image Spam with Near-Duplicate Detection; Zhe Wang, William Josephson, Qin Lv, Moses Charikar, Kai Li; Princeton University

• A Discriminative Classifier Learning Approach to Image Modeling and Spam Image Identification; Byungki Byun, Chin-Hui Lee, Steve Webb, Calton Pu (Georgia Tech)

• Image Spam Filtering by Content Obscuring Detection; Battista Biggio, Giorgio Fumera, Ignazio Pillai, Fabio Roli, (DIEE - Univ. of Cagliari)

12:30 pm

Lunch break

1:00 pm

Live Spam Challenge Starts

2:00 pm

Social Network (session chair: Roberto Tamassia)

• Email Communities of Interest; Lisa Johansen, Michael Rowell, Kevin Butler, Patrick McDaniel (The Pennsylvania State University)

• A Learning Approach to Spam Detection based on Social Networks, Ho-Yu Lam, Dit-Yan Yeung (HKUST)

• Discovering Leadership Roles in Email Workgroups; Vitor Carvalho, Wen Wu, William Cohen (Carnegie Mellon University)

• Blog Spam: A Review; Adam Thomason, (Six Apart Ltd)

3:30 pm

Break

3:50 pm

Statistical Learning (session chair: Joshua Alspector)

• Asymmetric Gradient Boosting with Application to Spam Filtering; Jingrui He, Bo Thiesson (Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research)

• Online Active Learning Methods for Fast Label-Efficient Spam Filtering; D. Sculley (Tufts University)

• Evaluation of the Highest Probability SVM Nearest Neighbor Classifier with Variable Relative Error Cost; Enrico Blanzieri, Anton Bryl (University of Trento)

• Improve Spam Filtering by Detecting Gray Mail; Scott Yih, Robert McCann, Alek Kolcz (Microsoft)

5:30 pm

Reception

6:00 pm

Banquet

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Anti-spam Techniques (session chair: John Levine)

• Hardening Fingerprinting by Context; Aleksander Kolcz and Abdur Chowdhury (Microsoft Live Lab and IIT Chicago)

• Combining Global and Personal Anti-Spam Filtering; Richard Segal (IBM Research)

• DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM): Using Digital Signatures for Domain Verification; Barry Leiba, Jim Fenton, (IBM Research and Cisco)

• Slicing Spam with Occam's Razor; Chris Fleizach, Geoffrey Voelker, Stefan Savage (UCSD)

10:30 am

break

10:45 am

Measurements (session chair: Kang Li)

• Phishing Attacks: Analyzing Trends in 2006; Zulfikar Ramzan, Candid Wueest, (Symantec)

• Characterizing Web Spam Using Content and HTTP Session Analysis; Steve Webb, James Caverlee, Calton Pu (Georgia Tech)

• Email traffic: a quantitative snapshot; Richard Clayton, (University of Cambridge)

• A Case for a Spam-Aware Mail Server Architecture; Abhinav Pathak, Sabyasachi Roy, Charlie Hu (Purdue University)

• AntispamLab - A Tool for Realistic Evaluation of Email Spam Filters; Slavisa Sarafijanovic, Luis Hernandez, Raphael Naefen, Jean-Yves Le Boudec (EPFL)

12:20 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Live Spam Challenge Stops

2:00 pm

Other Spam (session chair: Gordon V. Cormack)

• Is Britney Spears Spam?; Aaron Zinman, Judith Donath (MIT Media Lab)
• CallRank: Combating SPIT Using Call Duration, Social Networks and Global Reputation; Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Mustaque Ahamad, Haesun Park (Georgia Tech)

• TV-ACTA: Embedding an Activity-Centered Interface for Task Management in Email; Victoria Bellotti, Jim Thornton, Alvin Chin, Diane Schiano, Nathan Good (Palo Alto Research Center and UC Berkeley)

• A Game-Theoretic Investigation of the Effect of Human Interactive Proofs on Spam E-mail; Dimitrios Vassilakis, Ion Androutsopoulos, Evangelos Magirou,(AUEB)

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Panel Discussion about Live Spam Challenge

4:45 pm

Business Meeting

5:00 pm

End