Scale-free topology of e-mail networks

被引:494
作者
Ebel, H [1 ]
Mielsch, LI [1 ]
Bornholdt, S [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Kiel, Inst Theoret Phys, D-24098 Kiel, Germany
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10.1103/PhysRevE.66.035103
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
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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