Scale-free topology of e-mail networks
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- 30 September 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 66 (3) , 035103
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.66.035103
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.Keywords
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