Middleware 2003 ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference Rio Othon Palace Hotel Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 16-20 June 2003

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Approximate Object Location and Spam Filtering on Peer-to-peer Systems

Feng Zhou, Li Zhuang, Ben Y. Zhao, Ling Huang, Anthony D. Joseph and John Kubiatowics (U.C.Berkeley)

Recent work in P2P overlay networks allow for decentralized object routing and location (DOLR) across
networks based on unique IDs. We observe that many network applications involve the management of
similar, but not identical replicas, creating a dilemma for content-hashed naming schemes in existing P2P
systems. In this paper, we propose an extension to DOLR systems to publish objects using generic
Feature Vectors instead of content-hashed GUIDs, which enables the systems to locate similar objects.
We discuss the design of a distributed text similarity engine, named Approximate Text Addressing, built
on top of this extension that locates objects by their text descriptions.  Later we outline the design and
implementation of a killer-app on ATA, a decentralized spam-filtering service.  We achieve spam
identification ratio of over 97% with zero false positive in our evaluation done with 30,000 real spam emails
and 10,000 normal emails.

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