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SCN Special Issue on Spam 2012 : SCN Special issue on Spam, Phishing, and Countermeasures for Undesirable Electronic Communications | |||||||||||||||
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CALL FOR PAPERS
SECURITY and Communication Networks (Wiley) Special Issue on Spam, Phishing, and Countermeasures for Undesirable Electronic Communications Abusive activities in electronic communications such as spam and phishing are a critical security problem on the Internet, threatening the usefulness and trustworthiness of the Internet email system, social networks, Voice over IP (VoIP), e-commerce, and the alike of which electronic messaging is an integral part. Despite more than a decade of anti-spam and anti-fraud research and development efforts, abusive activities in electronic communications have continuously been on the rise on the Internet. In this special issue, we solicit original work in all areas of detection, classification, and prevention of abusive activities in electronic communications such as spamming, scamming and phishing. In particular, we seek original work on identifying new trends and tactics in undesirable electronic communications, exploring novel research and development challenges in detecting and preventing undesirable electronic communications, and developing new techniques and algorithms to detect and prevent abusive activities in electronic communications. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following: o Spam and phishing control in Internet email system o Spam and phishing control in Instant Messenger o Spam and phishing control in emerging areas such as social networks, VoIP, and e-commerce o Spam and phishing control on handheld devices such as smartphones o Novel pattern classification and machine learning algorithms for spam and phishing control o Accountability, trust, and reputation in electronic communications o Message sender authentication techniques o Message origin tracking and discovery o Forensic analysis in electronic communications for supporting law enforcement o Case studies on international regulatory activities for spam control o New trends and tactics in undesirable electronic communications o Modeling and analysis of economics of abuse, phishing, spam, scam and fraud o Online fraud, cybercrime, identity theft, and other online crimes o Anti spam hardware appliances for companies o Techniques for detecting scams in email and on the web Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit high quality and original work that is not under review in any conference or journal. Papers should be submitted to Dr. Vidyasagar M. Potdar (vidyasagar.potdar@gmail.com). The instructions for manuscript preparation can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291939-0122/homepage/ForA uthors.html. Schedule: Paper submission deadline: Jan 31, 2012 Notification of acceptance: Feb 25, 2012 Final papers due: March 25, 2012 Publication date: TBA Guest Editors: Vidyasagar M. Potdar, Curtin University, Australia Zhenhai Duan, Florida State University, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy |
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