Special Issue on ‘Spam Detection’ Software: Practice and Experience (SPE)
Gordon V. Cormack · Software Practice and Experience · 2008
Obvious room for improvement remains in the detection rates, false detection rates and maintenance effort associated with current filters. The mechanisms used in practical spam filters remain a black art, largely hidden in poorly documented or proprietary implementations. Realistic measurements of the effectiveness of spam filter methods are scarce. Theoretical methods such as machine learning and game theory have largely been studied and reported using tools, notations and venues specific to the methods. Accessible accounts considering the applicability of these methods to the problem of spam filtering would be of great benefit to practitioners. Media other than email present new challenges that may be addressed by methods developed for email, or may occasion the development of new methods. Software: Practice and Experience invites submissions addressing any of these issues for inclusion in a special issue titled Spam Detection. Papers will be subject to the normal scientific peer review process and should contain original results or original presentations of existing results specific to the problem of spam detection. Product or system descriptions are appropriate only if they report techniques or results that may be applicable independent of the product or system. An extended and improved version of work previously presented at a conference is acceptable for submission to this special issue provided that the author(s) can assign full copyright in the article to Software: Practice and Experience. Paper Submission Details Prospective authors are kindly requested to submit their manuscripts online, no later than ‘31st March 2008’ to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spe. Please follow the instructions under ‘For Authors’ on the journal homepage http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/softwarepractice. There is no strict limit on the length of a submission, but submissions longer than 20 pages will be considered acceptable only when important new results are presented and where the extra length is justified. When submitting your article to this Special Issue, make sure that you have selected the correct Article Type in the online submission system: ‘Special Issue Article.’