Publication Details
Development of Social Networks in Email Communication
Schäfer Jiří, Ing.
anonymity; disclosure; social network; scale free; evolution
In this paper, we perform an empirical analysis of email traffic logs obtained
from a large university to better understand the development of social networks.
We analyzed data containing records of emails sent over a period of 10 months -
the largest dataset we are aware of. We study the long term evolution of social
networks on real world data. The initial analysis of data is followed by an
exploration of existence of how social network impacts the anonymity. We describe
possibilities of modeling social network and describe dynamics of their
development. Based on our result we design attack of proper selection, which
could cause higher successfulness of disclosure attacks.
@inproceedings{BUT33728,
author="Kamil {Malinka} and Jiří {Schäfer}",
title="Development of Social Networks in Email Communication",
booktitle="The Fourth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection",
year="2009",
pages="1--5",
publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
address="Venice",
isbn="978-0-7695-3612-5"
}