Application of evolutionary algorithms in detecting SMS spam at access layer

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1787-1794

  Rafique, M Zubair ^a   Alrayes, Nasser ^a   Khan, Muhammad Khurram ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Access layer detection; Smart phones; SMS spam

Indexed keywords

ACCESS LAYER DETECTION; ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN; DATA SETS; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; DETECTION ACCURACY; FALSE ALARM RATE; FILTERING METHOD; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES; SMART PHONES; SMS SPAM; SPAM FILTER; SPAM MESSAGES; STRUCTURAL LEARNING;

ELECTRONIC MAIL FILTERS; EXPERIMENTS; INTERNET; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE SETS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84860392529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2001576.2001816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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