General Conference Chair: David Heckerman (Microsoft Research)
Program Co-Chairs:

• Tom Berson (Anagram Laboratories)
• Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research)
• Andrew Ng (Stanford University)

  The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam invites the submission of papers for its first meeting, held in cooperation with AAAI (the American Association for Artificial Intelligence), IACR (the International Association for Cryptologic Research) and the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. Papers are invited on all aspects of email and spam, 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 and Policy: Legal and policy papers
  Research papers include experimental or theoretical, academic-style papers on all aspects of email and spam, including but not limited to:
  • Techniques for stopping spam, including
    • Machine learning techniques
    • Postage techniques (HIPs or computation, possibly in response to a challenge)
    • Disposable email addresses
    • Protocols for sender authentication and verification
    • Digital signatures
    • Proof of group membership
    • Role and significance of spam as a malware vector
    • Spam traceback
  • New features for email systems
    • Automatic foldering
    • Sorting, clustering, or searching email, including both machine learning techniques and user interface research.
    • Advanced calendaring and scheduling
    • Digital rights management research as applied to email
    • Public Key Infrastructure in an email environment
  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 spam
  • New standards and interoperability
  • For spam
  • For calendaring and scheduling
  • Public key infrastructure for encryption and identity
  • Digital rights management
  • New products, especially those with novel features
  Legal and policy papers focus on topics such as
  • What new laws or social institutions are most appropriate for spam or other email topics?
  • Legal strategies for stopping spam
  • The CAN-SPAM act and potential FTC regulations
  • International legal approaches
  • What can and should be done about Phisher scams and other email scams?
  • The economics of spam
  • Email and identity: who should control it?
  • Email and privacy, email at work.
  In all three areas, submissions closely related to email, such as instant messaging, chat rooms, usenet groups, and mailing lists will also be given full consideration.

  KEY DATES:
  Paper Submission Deadline: April 16
  Notification of acceptance: June 1
  Final camera-ready version of papers: July 1
  Conference: July 30 and 31
  REQUIREMENTS: Papers may be of one of two types: extended abstracts (two pages) or full papers (at most 8 pages, including appendices and bibliography). Work may not have been previously published in any conference or journal, and simultaneous submissions are not allowed.

  Papers will be reviewed by a committee from academic and industrial research centers. Papers should be 11 point in single column format.

  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.

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  CONTACT: information@ceas.cc