Abstract
Electronic mail has become the most popular, frequently-used and powerful medium for quicker personal and business communications. However, one of the common security issues and annoying problems faced by email users and organizations is receiving a large number of unsolicited email messages, known as spam emails, every day. A traditional countermeasure in most email systems nowadays is simple filtering mechanisms that can block or quarantine unwanted emails based on some keywords defined by the user. These filters require continual effort to keep them relevant and current with some extensions proposed to improve their performance. However, due to the gigantic volumes of received emails and the continual change in spamming techniques to bypass the implemented solutions, novel automated ideas and countermeasures need to be investigated. This paper explores a novel algorithm inspired by the immune system called dendritic cell algorithm (DCA). This algorithm is evaluated on a number of benchmark datasets to detect spam emails. The results demonstrate that this approach can be a promising solution for email classification and spam filtering.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | IEEE SSCI 2014 |
Subtitle of host publication | 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - CICS 2014: 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security, Proceedings |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781479945221 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 16 Jan 2014 |
Publication series
Name | IEEE SSCI 2014: 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - CICS 2014: 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security, Proceedings |
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Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2014 IEEE.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Science Applications
- Software