Collaborative Spam Filtering Using E-Mail Networks

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August 2006 (Vol. 39, No. 8) pp. 67-73
Collaborative Spam Filtering Using E-Mail Networks
Joseph S. Kong, University of California, Los Angeles
Behnam A. Rezaei, University of California, Los Angeles
Nima Sarshar, University of California, Los Angeles
Vwani P. Roychowdhury, University of California, Los Angeles
P. Oscar Boykin, University of Florida

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Abstract
A distributed spam-filtering system that leverages e-mail networks' topological properties is more efficient and scalable than client-server-based solutions. Large-scale simulations of a prototype system reveal that this approach achieves a near-perfect spam detection rate while minimizing bandwidth cost.
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Index Terms- spam, e-mail networks Citation: Joseph S. Kong, Behnam A. Rezaei, Nima Sarshar, Vwani P. Roychowdhury, P. Oscar Boykin, "Collaborative Spam Filtering Using E-Mail Networks," Computer, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 67-73, Aug., 2006

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