Scale-free topology of e-mail networks

@misc{citeulike:336145, abstract = {We study the topology of e-mail networks with e-mail addresses as nodes and e-mails as links using data from server log files. The resulting network exhibits a scale-free link distribution and pronounced small-world behavior, as observed in other social networks. These observations imply that the spreading of e-mail viruses is greatly facilitated in real e-mail networks compared to random architectures.}, author = {Ebel, Holger and Mielsch, Lutz-Ingo and Bornholdt, Stefan }, citeulike-article-id = {336145}, eprint = {cond-mat/0201476}, keywords = {email, mail-spam, social\_networks}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2005-09-30 10:21:27}, priority = {0}, title = {Scale-free topology of e-mail networks}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201476}, year = {2002} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:336145 L3 - citeulike-article-id:336145 N2 - We study the topology of e-mail networks with e-mail addresses as nodes and e-mails as links using data from server log files. The resulting network exhibits a scale-free link distribution and pronounced small-world behavior, as observed in other social networks. These observations imply that the spreading of e-mail viruses is greatly facilitated in real e-mail networks compared to random architectures. TI - Scale-free topology of e-mail networks KW - email KW - mail-spam KW - social_networks AU - Ebel, Holger AU - Mielsch, Lutz-Ingo AU - Bornholdt, Stefan PY - 2002/Feb/12/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201476 ER -