Adaptive Spam Detection Inspired by a Cross-Regulation Model of Immune Dynamics: A Study of Concept Drift

  • Authors:
  • Alaa Abi-Haidar;Luis M. Rocha

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA IN 47401;Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • ICARIS '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Artificial Immune Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel solution to spam detection inspired by a model of the adaptive immune system known as the cross-regulation model. We report on the testing of a preliminary algorithm on six e-mail corpora. We also compare our results statically and dynamically with those obtained by the Naive Bayes classifier and another binary classification method we developed previously for biomedical text-mining applications. We show that the cross-regulation model is competitive against those and thus promising as a bio-inspired algorithm for spam detection in particular, and binary classification in general.