Anti-Spam Research LAB
Welcome
Anti-Spam Research Lab (ASRL) is the advanced research lab of Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII), which is Tier 1 research institute in Curtin University. Anti-Spam Research Lab was setup in Jan 2008 and in a span of two years it has grown to be one of the major research labs in DEBI Institute. The aim of Anti-Spam Research Lab is to eliminate spam in any form i.e. Email spam, Web spam, Web 2.0 spam (i.e. blog spam, forum spam, social networking spam, wiki spam, tag spam, comment spam), Spamdexing, Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT), Spam over Instant Messenger (SPIM) etc.
Our Vision is to "eliminate spam"

The key members of this lab include: Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar, Dr. Alex Talevski, Prof Bill Smyth, Dr. Chen Wu, Dr. Song Han, Pedram Hayati, Kevin Chai, Farida Ridzuan, Saeed Sarencheh, Elham Yeganeh, Nazanin Firoozeh.


Figure above illustrated key entities inside new form of spamming technique called Spam 2.0 or Web 2.0 Spam which is current focus of Anti-Spam Research Lab. The currents projects at the Anti-Spam Research Lab are shown below.
 

Cost of Web Spam in Australia

The aim of this project is to model the cost of Web Spam to the Australian economy. This will be measured in terms of loss of GDP, loss in employee or user productivity etc. This will be the first study that looks at the cost incurred due to Web Spam i.e. blogs spam, forum spam, wiki spam etc. since most of the existing studies are focussed on email spam. More...

Characterising Bot Behaviour

This project aims to characterize spambot behaviour to eliminate spam. A number of honeypots are deployed to collect and analyze spambots behaviour to help distinguish human users from spambots. Next generation data mining and web usage mining techniques are applied to gain insights into spambot behaviour. More...

Spam 2.0 Live Stat

This project aims to provide a live interface that would show the amount of Web 2.0 Spam that is entering the Internet on a daily basis. The information would be fed by numerous honeypots that we have setup on a number of web servers across the globe. Being a research institute we aim to provide unbiased information on the current state of Web 2.0 Spam. More...

Contact

Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar
Head Policy, Planning & Business Strategy
Digital Ecosystems & Business Intelligence Institute
Curtin University, Perth, Australia 
Tel:  +61 8 9266 1836
Fax:  +61 8 9266 7548
Email: v.potdar@curtin.edu.au