Developing an Immunity to Spam
by Terri Oda, Tony White
2003-06-12
Language:
English
Note: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - GECCO 2003. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, July 12-16, 2003, Proceedings, Part I Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2723. Springer, 2003.
Abstract
Immune systems protect animals from pathogens, so why not apply a similar model to protect computers? Several researchers have investigated the use of an artificial immune system to protect computers from viruses and others have looked at using such a system to detect unauthorized computer intrusions. This paper describes the use of an artificial immune system for another kind of protection: protection from unsolicited email, or spam.
