Enhancing Spam Detection Using Hybrid of Harris Hawks and Firefly Optimization Algorithms

Mosleh M. Abualhaj, Qusai Y. Shambour, Adeeb Alsaaidah, Ahmad Abu-Shareha, Sumaya Al-Khatib, Mohammad O. Hiari
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DOI https://doi.org/10.47738/jads.v5i3.279

Abstract


The emergence of the modern Internet has presented numerous opportunities for attackers to profit illegally by distributing spam mail. Spam refers to irrelevant or inappropriate messages that are sent on the Internet to numerous recipients. Many researchers use many classification methods in machine learning to filter spam messages. However, more research is still needed to assess using metaheuristic optimization algorithms to classify spam emails in feature selection. In this paper, we endorse fighting spam emails by employing a union of Firefly Optimization Algorithm (FOA) and Harris Hawks Optimization (HHO) algorithms to classify spam emails, along with one of the most well-known and efficient methods in this area, the Random Forest (RF) classifier. In this process, the experimental studies on the ISCX-URL2016 spam dataset yield promising results. For instance, the union of HHO and FOA, along with using an RF classifier, achieved an accuracy of 99.83% in detecting spam emails.

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Spam emails; Machine learning; Feature selection; Firefly Optimization Algorithm; Harris Hawks Optimization; and Random Forest.

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