Scale-free topology of e-mail networks
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2009-11-07 v2 Statistical Mechanics
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.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0201476,
title = {Scale-free topology of e-mail networks},
author = {Holger Ebel and Lutz-Ingo Mielsch and Stefan Bornholdt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0201476},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages RevTeX, 4 figures PostScript (extended version)