RuleSIM: a toolkit for simulating the operation and improving throughput of rule‐based spam filters. (5th July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ruano‐Ordás, David; Fdez‐Glez, Jorge; Fdez‐Riverola, Florentino; Basto Fernandes, Vitor; Méndez, José Ramón
• Is Part Of: Software, practice & experience. Volume 46:Number 8(2016)
• Page Start: 1091
• Page End: 1108
• Publication Date: 2015-07-05
• Subjects: rule scheduling optimization -- spam‐filtering rules -- computational resource management -- scheduling application -- filtering performance benchmark tool -- rule‐based spam systems; Computer software -- Periodicals; Computer programming -- Periodicals; Computer programs -- Periodicals; 005.3
• DOI: 10.1002/spe.2342
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0038-0644

Abstract

Summary: This paper introduces RuleSIM, a toolkit comprising different simulation tools specifically designed to aid researchers concerned about spam‐filtering throughput. RuleSIM allows easily designing, developing, simulating and comparing new scheduling heuristics using different filters and sets of e‐mails. Simulation results can be both graphically analysed, by using different complementary views, and quantitatively compared through several measures. Moreover, the underlying RuleSIM API can be easily integrated with third‐party Java optimization platforms to facilitate debugging and achieve better configurations for rule scheduling. RuleSIM is free software distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License, and both source code and documentation are publicly available athttps://github.com/rulesim/v2.0 . Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.