%0 Journal Article
%T Scale-free topology of e-mail networks
%A Holger Ebel
%A Lutz-Ingo Mielsch
%A Stefan Bornholdt
%J Physics
%D 2002
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.035103
%X 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.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201476v2