Behavior-based spam detection using a hybrid method of rule-based techniques and neural networks

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 4321-4330

  Wu, Chih Hung ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Back propagation neural networks; Classification; Machine learning; Rule based reasoning; Spam filtering

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPAMMING;

BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; BEHAVIOR-BASED; CLASSIFICATION MECHANISM; LEARNING STRATEGY; RULE BASED REASONING; RULE-BASED PROCESS; RULE-BASED TECHNIQUES; SPAM FILTERING;

BACKPROPAGATION;

EID: 58349104374     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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