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Scale-free topology of e-mail networks
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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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- Authors
- Ebel, H., Mielsch, L.-I., & Bornholdt, S.
- Venue
- Physical Review E
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2002-09-30
- Volume
- 66
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 035103-035103
- ISSN
- 1063-651X (ISSN-L)
- 1095-3787
- OpenAlex
- W1975522802
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- 940
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 19.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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