A Decision-Making Approach to the Spam Problem
Daniel Berend, Amir Sapir, Luba Sapir · INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research · 2011
Borrowing from the vote aggregation literature, this paper addresses two current era problems of information technology—spam and virus recognition. The underlying idea behind the solutions proposed is to combine the opinions of several “experts” in one of these areas (i.e., antispam filters, anti-virus programs, respectively) to a final group decision. Despite the fact that the problems, and thus the applications designed to tackle them, are different, our approach in these solutions is unified, and is based on the same mathematical model, the so-called dichotomous choice model.