Call for Papers

The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) invites the submission of papers for its sixth meeting. Papers are invited on all aspects of electronic communication including email, social networks, blogs, instant messaging, text messaging, and voice over internet protocol (VoIP). Topics of interest include novel applications and theoretical work in abuse filtering, security measures, automated assistance, reliability, economic issues, phishing, identity theft via messaging, fraud, evaluation measures, and benchmarks. Both academic and industrial research perspectives are encouraged.

Both full papers of up to 10 pages and poster papers of up to 2 pages will be considered. Papers will be peer-reviewed by a committee of experts from academic and industrial research centers.

Suggested topics

• Message filtering, organization, and security
• Machine learning, natural language processing, and adversarial learning
• Message summarization, search, and automated routing
• Social networking security, privacy, and fraud prevention
• Corpus and benchmark creation, measures and methodologies
• Game-theoretic analysis of economics of spam and phishing
• Studies of abuse tactics and patterns
• Scalability, reliability, archiving, and retrieval
• Messaging protocols
• Messaging and abuse reporting standards
• Identity theft, freedom of speech, digital rights management

Key dates

• Submission deadline: April 15, 2009
• Conference dates: July 16 and 17, 2009

Submission Information for CEAS 2009

Submission Types

Submissions may be either full papers or poster papers. Accepted full papers will be given a full (probably twenty-minute) presentation slot, with the option of additionally participating in the poster session. Accepted poster papers will present during the poster session, with selected poster papers being given an additional short presentation slot.

The maximum length for full papers is 10 pages, including all references, figures, etc. The maximum length for poster papers is 2 pages, with the exception that references may extend onto a third page. Papers exceeding the maximum length will be rejected without review.

Full paper submissions should consist of original work that has not previously appeared in any peer-reviewed conference or journal, and should not be under review in for another peer-reviewed conferece or journal during the CEAS reviewing period. Poster paper submissions may include case studies, papers describing work in progress, and results that have previously been presented at a conference that caters to a different scientific community.

Formatting Instructions

Submitted papers should follow ACM conference format: two-column, letter-sized paper. Style files for LaTeX and Word are given below.

LaTeX style files

Word style file (Template as PDF).

Papers should be submitted as PDF files. Note that the review process of CEAS is not double-blind.

Submitting a Paper

Papers may be submitted at the conference submission website: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/CEAS2009/

Submission Deadline

The submission deadline is April 15, 2009, 23:59:59 PST.

A Note on Repeatability

CEAS draws from a rich set of communities in both academia and industry. As such, it is sometimes difficult for all experiments to be conducted or reported in a manner that allows strict repeatability, for reasons of privacy, confidentiality, and propriety.

Nonetheless, every effort should be made to make experimental results repeatable, preferably by making source code and data sets publicly available and reporting all parameters in detail. When this is not possible, efforts should be made to conduct additional experiments on similar publicly available data or with similar publicly available methods. Finally, if none of these approaches are possible, an explanation of this should be included.

Contact

• Program Chairs: Eric Allman, D. Sculley, Scott Yih.
• Conference Chair: Tobias Scheffer.
• General information: information@ceas.cc