Support vector machines and random forests modeling for spam senders behavior analysis

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2174-2178

  Tang, Yuchun ^a   Krasser, Sven ^a   He, Yuanchen ^a   Yang, Weilai ^a   Alperovitch, Dmitri ^a  

^a Secure Computing Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS; E-MAIL TRAFFIC; EMAIL COMMUNICATION; EMAIL MESSAGES; IP ADDRESS; MODELING PARAMETERS; RANDOM FORESTS; REPUTATION SYSTEMS; TIME AND SPACE;

CLASSIFIERS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 67249154420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2008.ECP.419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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