A Collaborative and Multi-Agent Approach to E-mail Filtering

  • Authors:
  • Lorenzo Lazzari;Marco Mari;Agostino Poggi

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria dellýInformazione Università degli Studi di Parma;Dipartimento di Ingegneria dellýInformazione Università degli Studi di Parma;Dipartimento di Ingegneria dellýInformazione Università degli Studi di Parma

  • Venue:
  • IAT '05 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

CAFE (Collaborative Agents for Filtering E-mails) is a multi-agent system to collaboratively filter spam from usersý mail. CAFE associates each user with a proxy agent that acts as an interface between the userýs e-mail client and the server. With the support of other agents, the proxy agent classifies messages into three categories: ham (good messages), spam and spam-presumed. The system analyzes each message using three approaches: the first is based on an hash function, the second (static) on DNSBL (DNS-based Black Lists) databases and the third (dynamic) on a Bayesian filter. We give a mathematical representation of the system, showing that if the users collaborate, the fault probability decreases in proportion to the number of active users.