Subject: [Asrg] CEAS 2006 Call for Papers

From: "John R Levine" <[email-masked]>
Date: 13 Jan 2006 14:06:57 -0500

The first two were pretty good.

I'm on the program committee, feel free to ask for more info.

R's,
John

             THE THIRD CONFERENCE ON EMAIL AND ANTI-SPAM 

                             (CEAS 2006)

              Thursday July 27 and Friday July 28, 2006               

                     Mountain View, California

                         http://www.ceas.cc

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

               ** Submission Deadline: March 23, 2006 **

The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) invites short and long

paper submissions on research results pertaining to a broad range of

issues in email and internet communication.

Submissions may address issues relating to any form of electronic

messaging, including traditional email, instant messaging, mobile

telephone text messaging, and voice over IP. Issues of interest include

the analysis and abatement of abuses (such as spam, phishing, identity

theft, and privacy invasion) as well as enhancements to and novel

applications of electronic messaging.

Papers will be selected by peer review for presentation at CEAS and

inclusion in the proceedings.

PAST TOPICS:

    Past proceedings are available on-line: 

       2004:  <http://ceas.cc/papers-2004/acceptedpapers.htm>

       2005:  <http://ceas.cc/2005/schedulepapers.htm>

    These give an indication of some of the diverse topics of interest to 

    CEAS. Novel departures from previously included topics are welcome. 

SUGGESTED TOPICS:

    * Message filtering, blocking, authentication

          o Machine learning techniques

          o statistical techniques

          o natural language processing

          o protocols

          o signatures

    * Message organization

          o automatic foldering

          o categorization

          o clustering

          o work flow 

    * Message retrieval

          o search

          o summarization 

    * Systems and network issues

          o performance & scalability

          o reliability & security

          o archival & retrieval 

    * Evaluation

          o corpus and benchmark creation

          o measures and methodologies

          o tests of specific methods or products 

    * Analysis

          o abuse tactics and patterns

          o legitimate use patterns 

    * User issues

          o user interfaces

          o usability studies

          o messaging in support of user activities 

    * Social issues

          o costs and benefits of messaging use and abuse

          o other social impacts

          o deducing social phenomena 

    * Legal issues

          o spam

          o phishing

          o identity theft

          o privacy

          o freedom of speech

          o digital rights management 

KEY DATES:

    * Paper submission deadline: March 23, 2006

    * Notification of acceptance: May 22

    * Final camera-ready version of papers: June 22

    * Conference: July 27 and 28, 2006

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 (link to be announced). 

    The style for submissions and final papers is a two-column, 8.5 by 11 

    inch format, as specified in <http://www.ceas.cc/2006/format.htm>.

    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:

    * <mailto:[email-masked]>

      (sends mail to the chair and co-chairs.)

GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR:

    * Gordon V. Cormack

      University of Waterloo

      <http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/>

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:

    * Ion Androutsopoulos

      Athens University of Economics and Business

      <http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/>

    * Alek Kolcz

      AOL

      <http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/~ark/alek/home.html>

    * Dave Crocker

      Brandenburg InternetWorking 

      <http://www.bbiw.net/>

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