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The First Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS)
Final Call for Papers
July 30, 31
Mountain View, CA
http://www.ceas.cc/
Immediately Follows
AAAI 2004
The International Spam Law & Policies Conference
In Cooperation with
The American Association for Artificial Intelligence
The International Association for Cryptologic Research
The IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy
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/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:
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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.
Suggestions for panel discussions are also welcome, and should be sent
to the Program Chairs at [EMAIL PROTECTED] by April 16.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Martin Abadi (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Josh Alspector (AOL)
Edwin Aoki (AOL)
Olle Balter (NADA, KTH)
Paula J. Bruening (Center for Democracy and Technology)
Richard Clayton (University of Cambridge)
Nicolas Ducheneaut (PARC)
Cynthia Dwork (Microsoft Research)
Tom Fawcett (HP Labs)
Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research)
Karl Jacob (Cloudmark)
John Lafferty (CMU)
John R. Levine (ASRG, CAUCE, and Taughannock Networks)
David D. Lewis (Ornarose, Inc. and David D. Lewis Consulting)
Miles Libbey (Yahoo! Inc.)
Andrew McCallum (U. Mass. Amherst)
Kevin McCurley (IBM Almaden)
Ralph Merkle (Georgia Tech)
David Pennock (Yahoo! Research Labs)
John Platt (Microsoft Research)
Jon Praed (Internet Law Group)
Mehran Sahami (Google and Stanford)
Ken Schneider (Brightmail Inc.)
Diana Smetters (PARC)
Ian Smith (Intel Research Seattle)
Theo Van Dinter (SpamAssassin)
William S. Yerazunis (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories)
CONTACT: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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