An ensemble approach applied to classify spam e-mails

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2197-2201

  Ying, Kuo Ching ^a   Lin, Shih Wei ^b   Lee, Zne Jung ^c   Lin, Yen Tim ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HUAFAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Back propagation network; Decision tree; E mail; Ensemble; Spam; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

BACK-PROPAGATION NETWORK; DATA SETS; EMAIL MESSAGES; INFORMATION SECURITY; MACHINE-LEARNING; NETWORK RESOURCE; SIMULATION RESULT; STATISTICAL FILTERING;

BACKPROPAGATION; DECISION TREES; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SECURITY OF DATA; SPAMMING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 70449729432     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.07.080     Document Type: Article

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