Research on an Immune Mechanism Based Intelligent Spam Filter

Overview

With regard to the problem that the traditional anti-spam filter is usually incapable of recognizing unknown and mutational characters, a novel anti-spam filter based on immune mechanisms is proposed which employs multiple principles and mechanisms of the artificial immune system, such as the self tolerance, immune recognition, immune learning and immune memory. Through combining the idea of intelligent decision support system with the extension of classical rough set theory, a novel algorithm is provided for finding minimal attributes extraction and updating the attributes base. Simulation shows that this technique is able to reduce and improve the availability of the normal anti-spam systems.