as part of Conference Sicherheit (Security & Safety) 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany, April 2 - 4 2008
Ever increasing amounts of spam threaten to render email unusable. Depending on the source, spam makes up more than 90% of all email communication. With spam filtering, users try to get rid of the plague. But unfortunately, filtering has some disadvantages inherent to its heuristic approach, resulting in high rates of false positives and false negatives. False positives are solicited messages falsely marked as spam. By not answering those, companies run the risk of loosing sales or being sued for damage compensation for not having completed an order. False negatives, in turn, lead to inboxes full of spam, forcing the user to manual filtering, thus increasing the risk of false positives due to human intervention. Additionally, spammers learn from spam filtering technology and speedily adapt their behaviour to overcome current anti spam techniques.
This session therefore welcomes papers presenting new and innovative concepts to prevent spam, where spam is seen as unsolicited commercial email, i.e. not only malware or bulk email. Analysis of spam filters and legal aspects of spamming and spam filters are also of high interest. With spam reaching Voice over IP and SMS, work dealing with those problems are also welcome. If filtering results are discussed, it is suggested to differentiate between spam, unsolicited bulk email and malware. Search engine and blog spamming are not a subject of this session.
Papers are welcome in English (preferred) or German, in the following categories:
Scientific submissions will be peer reviewed, and, if accepted, published in Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI). Maximum length is 12 pages, excluding any appendixes. For formatting, see LNI style recommendations.
Deadline for Submissions: 15 November 2007 extended
Notification of Acceptance: 15 December 2007
Camera ready papers due: 15 January 2008
Industrial innovations are also welcome for our session. Submission will be reviewed separately. Accepted papers will be published in a own volume / chapter. Maximum length is five pages in LNI format.
Deadline for camera ready submissions: 15 January 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 15 February 2008
Interesting research and industry projects will be reviewed by the conference chairs and will be presented as a short talk or poster during the conference. The maximum length of a submission is two pages (LNI format).
Deadline for camera ready submissions: 15 January 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 15 February 2008
Submissions should use our electronic submission system available at www.sicherheit2008.de
Saarbrücken is the capital of the German federal state Saarland. It is close to several regional airports and about 165 km south-west of Frankfurt international airport.
The conference is organized by the German Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), the German chapter of ACM. It has become an important conference on security and safety in Germany.
Prof. Dr. Jörg Keller
FernUniversität in Hagen
Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik
Lehrgebiet Parallelität und VLSI
58084 Hagen, Germany
phone/fax +49-2331-987-376/308
email j o e r g . k e l l e r @ f e r n u n i - h a g e n . d e
or
Dr. Tobias Eggendorfer
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Institut für Informationstechnische Systeme
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39
85579 Neubiberg, Germany
phone/fax +49-89-6004-2280/3898
email t o b i a s . e g g e n d o r f e r @ u n i b w . d e
web http://www.unibw.de/tobias.eggendorfer