A New Hybrid Approach of K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm with Particle Swarm Optimization for E-Mail Spam Detection

Emails are one of the fastest economic communications. Increasing email users has caused the increase of spam in recent years. As we know, spam not only damages user’s profits, time-consuming and bandwidth, but also has become as a risk to efficiency, reliability, and security of a network. Spam developers are always trying to find ways to escape the existing filters, therefore new filters to detect spams need to be developed. Most of these filters take advantage of a combination of several methods, such as black or white lists, using keywords, rule-based filters, machine learning methods and so on, to identify spams more accurately. many approaches about email spam detection exhausted up to now. In this paper, we propose a new approach for spam detection based on Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm and K-Nearest Neighbor optimization, and we measure performance based on Accuracy, Precision, Recall, And f-measure. The results show that the proposed approach has a better performance than other models and the basic algorithms.