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